5 research outputs found
Mobile Learning: Solutions & Challenges
No full textIn this session, Marguerite Koole, Fatma Elsayed Meawad, and Inge de Waard will describe two mobile learning projects:
1. A project piloting a Java-based system called “MobiGlam”. Through MobiGlam, students accessed Moodle course modules on their mobile devices. Evaluations from this 2008 project highlighted some interesting challenges in the Canadian context.
2. A mobile learning project of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium and the Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander von Humboldt, Lima, Peru. Twenty physicians, deployed in urban peripheral HIV/AIDS clinics in Peru, used Smartphones with portable solar chargers to access 3D simulations of interactive clinical cases, discussion forums, and quizzes.Elluminat
A Framework for Interoperability with VLEs for Large Scale Deployment of Mobile Learning
No full textA Lightweight Approach to In-Place Authoring for Mobile World Browsers
No full textAchieving the ubiquity of in-place content authoring is essential to the next generation of mobile augmented reality browsers. In-place authoring is expected to be intuitive for end users and lightweight for common smart phones. We propose a solution for in-place world labeling that makes use of the smart phones' camera parameters, its built-in sensors and a little help from the user(s). The extracted data is used to calculate the 3D location of a point of interest in the user's scene and validate its presence within the cameras viewing pyramid. The proposed approach allows for single and multiple authors for the same POI which gives much promise for supporting social and collaborative authoring. We describe multiple techniques for calculating the POI location to accommodate for the different interaction scenarios with the users
Mobile Learning in Distance Education: Utility or Futility
No full textCan mobile technology improve flexibility and quality of interaction for graduate students in distance programs? This paper reports the results of an innovative study exploring the usability, learning, and social interaction of mobile access to online course materials at a Canadian distance education university. Through a system called MobiGlam, students accessed Moodle course materials on a variety of mobile devices. The Framework for the Rational Analysis of Mobile Education (FRAME) model (Koole, 2006) was used to examine the complexities of this mobile system, its perceived usefulness, and potential impact on distance students. The researchers recommend further study of the balance between the controls and constraints of social technologies and the needs of distance students. Is there a way to achieve a balance so as to encourage adaptation to new technologies and a greater sense of “connectedness” among learners? As a result of the study, the researchers remain supportive of “device-agnostic” mobile tools that permit the greatest freedom of choice to distance learners.Acknowledgements: Thank you to Mr. Curtis Collicutt, Mr. Darren Harkness, and Dr. Fatma Elsayed Meawad for all your technical support
