Valid discussion on Mobile learning future and how impactful it could be in higher education?
Mobile methods of learning are best used as access to references. At the point information is needed, the student can look it up and use it. However, the retention of information provided in this manner appears to be low. I saw an example recently as I watched my son use Goggle apps to provide driving directions, even for places he had driven to multiple times. He used mobile learning, but did not retain it.
Our company currently uses short micro-learning videos, one of the types of learning used frequently for mobile learning. However, I find myself repeating these also due to low retention of short episodes of learning. I am interested in any studies on retention period of mobile learning and micro learning.
Hello Rasel
As I wrote today I want to sum to this discussion
About strategics I wrote this paper, it is the abstract
Abstract. Mobile Learning (m-learning) or nanoblogging constitutes use of "mobile technologies" processes associated with teaching and learning, the most popular multidisciplinary studies now in the world. There are several definitions for learning way as well as some learning theories. Part of this study is to introduce theoretical nanoblogging, some uses of this way in education and a proposal designed innovative teaching format known as twiction by twitter, it consists in to write short stories of science fiction. It should be noted that this form of teaching is used successfully in English schools. Keywords: Microblogging, M-learning, nanoblogging, Twitter, Twittion
CARREÑO, Ingrid del Valle García. Microblogging: Propuesta de twiction como estrategia de enseñanza innovadora en formato twitter.
Hi!
Learning has always been mobile whenever it has occured, learning is inherent in the learner. Teaching, on the other side, becomes more and more mobile in various ways when ICTs lower friction of information, and thereby enables more and better learning. Use of smartphones is only one step on the way.
Dear\ Faisal Khalil
pls read this article :-
Article What is the future of mobile learning in education?
- https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1093429.pdf
- https://www.ulapland.fi/loader.aspx?id=c5d0af37-4133-448e-8b18-73711d5ef1ad
good luck
Dear Ingrid Del Valle García Carreño Anders Norberg Mohamed Abdallah Turky thank you very much for your valuable feedback.
I assume you have meant Mobile based learning. Yes, mobile phone or similar devices will be hugely used for learning purposes. In the current world, technological devices are used by mostly young generations. They are either formal students or young professionals for whom learning is an everyday activity.
You may look for the relevant data about trends in mobile phone users in last decade. Then, a prediction can be made from the previous use.
Mobile learning will be part of the future, however there are a number of articles of late that suggest that on ground students are encouraged to close those mobile devices and do more active engagement in classes. It is also suggested that writing notes versus taking notes on a mobile device increases retention! While there is good and bad in of mobile learning think of what it is doing to the youth regarding their written and verbal skills and how they interact socially beyond the devices!
Hi!
I believe that education tends to follow an increasingly blended path, being increasingly promoted in diverse spaces. In this scenario, mobile devices open up very good possibilities.
Mobile methods of learning are best used as access to references. At the point information is needed, the student can look it up and use it. However, the retention of information provided in this manner appears to be low. I saw an example recently as I watched my son use Goggle apps to provide driving directions, even for places he had driven to multiple times. He used mobile learning, but did not retain it.
Our company currently uses short micro-learning videos, one of the types of learning used frequently for mobile learning. However, I find myself repeating these also due to low retention of short episodes of learning. I am interested in any studies on retention period of mobile learning and micro learning.
Mobile Learning is growing and somewhat much easily used in that the learner has the liberty to learn outside the classroom due to the ubiquitous nature of the mobile device. The way it is incorporated in the teaching are just the challenge. There is an advocacy for the entire learning content to be broken down into very small chunks of knowledge that represent a specific concept that the learner can consume in bits, such that over time learners can cumulatively use the gained knowledge by piecing up these concepts together.
Mobile learning is useful in developed countries (but not only). I cannot see a future in Education without mobile learning in those countries. Mobile learning contributes to the internationalization of education. It gives another perspective about what a learning process can be in places where the learning space is not a physical classroom, or a library, but a coffee shop with mobile technologies. For instance, a learner could interact with others via an e-learning environment during a collaborative session. In the digital age, the learning process can happen in various learning spaces which include various mobile technologies. With mobile learning possibilities are infinite.
Dear Rajib Lochan Das
Do you agree on the perspective of mobile learning one of the main drawback is social touch?
Dear Faisal Khalil
I do not agree that mobile learning can be a drawback for anything. As the learning is the ultimate target, we can consider mobile technology only a support tool of learning. This is a modern facility of time. Learning is more widely spread and easy nowadays.
On the other hand, such involvements of young adults of this time somehow have any negative impact to the socialization. But, I think this is a different perspective.
Thank you.
Faisal Khalil - Social touch is important for some of the population for learning, but others are comfortable using electronic communication to gather information. It is a personal preference. This opens a whole new question of providing alternatives to mobile learning to tailor training to the audience.
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