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Mobile Learning – Moving Beyond Content Delivery
Delivery of content on mobile phones is old news.
Every app on every smartphone, is a system designed to deliver valuable content in one form or the other. What distinguishes a true mobile learning system from an app that actually delivers learning material is its ability to ensure education is actually taking place.
An example of the future
Assume you have a verbal French app on your phone. Whenever you open the app you learn a new phrase. You may even be able to revise the previous phrases you’ve learned. Even better, the app may enable you to take multiple choice tests, giving you an idea of what you have learned.
But what if your app could also monitor the fact that you haven’t been logging into your app everyday? What if it could compare the results of your test with your previous test records and show you how your scores have dropped? What if the app provided you with a feature to call-in for verbal test?
Pushing learning levels up
The future of mobile learning lies beyond delivery of learning material on to your phone in a form that can be easily consumes. The future lies in its ability to influence the rate of learning, and improve educational levels.
A successful mobile learning app will need to incorporate ‘learning measurement’ or tools that can grade levels of education. To foster self-learning, it needs to provide the learner with objective measurement for learning improvement. To work in association with an educational environment, it has to provide educators with the ability to monitor and measure whether learning is taking place and how effective it is for students at different levels.
Mobl21 is a mobile learning app that enables both learners and educators to track and analyze learning levels, through a unique CREATE, SHARE, CONNECT & MEASURE® system. For more information, write to us.
Designing content for mobile learning
We’re entering a phase in mobile learning that is very exciting due to the advances in mobile technology. Today’s generation of mobile phones have larger screen sizes, can play and store quality audio and video, can capture higher resolution of images, have larger storage capacities, and can access the Internet faster.
As a result, we now have an increased ability to not only reach students outside traditional school hours, but reach them through a variety of learning objects. Below are some forms of educative material that work well with mobile phone technologies of today.
Instant Information:
Using a mobile phone is all about immediacy. The need is for quick answers to specific questions. Learning content must reflect this requirement by providing material that enables a user to quickly zone into information. Examples of instant information are definitions, formulae, and equations, etc.
Skill Assessment:
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Thomas Jefferson. Which year was the cotton gin invented? 1793. Revision is an important part of education, and testing one’s learning using flashcards and quizzes, facilitates easy recall of points likely to be needed in tests.
Collaborative:
Mobile phones provide an easy way to get a group coordinated on a project. Quick and instant feedback, support through video, images and text from multiple sources, and real-time interaction can enable peer-to-peer learning, resulting in better task comprehension and performance.
Learning Bites:
How to change a tyre. Writing a business letter. Simple science experiment procedures. The mobile phone is geared to providing short chunks of learning material at a time. Content that works within this requirement like how-to’s, procedures and short lessons, can easily be adapted into mobile learning content.
Media Support:
Many teachers already use video and audio to support their lessons, and converting these to a digital format, or finding similar material online can be done easily enough. By providing students access to this content, this valuable learning material will be available to them anywhere, anytime.
