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W02: Mobile Technologies I Want To See Someday…

W02: Mobile Technologies I Want To See Someday…

Pursuant to the thought that so many mobile technologies today seem like magic (in the sense of Arthur C. Clarke’s observation that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic), what kind of magic would you like to conjure, or have conjured, that doesn’t exist now? Keep in mind that a technology doesn’t necessarily have […]

W01: Does Context Rock?

W01: Does Context Rock?

This post is a discussion forum for ideas related to W01 – Mobility Perspectives. Specifically, this is a place to share your ideas about how important context is, how can educators employ it, and how might learners benefit from harnessing their own context better. INSTRUCTIONS: Read through a set of the existing responses below.  Use the Thumbs Up tool to recommend any within […]

W01: The Social Narrative

W01: The Social Narrative

This post is a discussion forum for ideas related to W01 – Mobility Perspectives. Specifically, this is a place to share your ideas about the potential of mobile technologies serving to reinvigorate learning’s connection with community, society and culture. INSTRUCTIONS: Read through a set of the existing responses below.  Use the Thumbs Up tool to recommend any within your set that […]

W13: Where and how should 523 refine its focus?

ETEC523 has adopted a deliberately broad scope to the topic of Mobile  and Open Learning and an experimental approach to its delivery.  Was it a valuable experience?  Was there a useful balance of mobile, social, open and flexible learning concepts?  Do professional networks and collective curation provide an appropriate context for learning?  Your thoughts on what works, […]

W13: Threat or Opportunity: What does open learning mean to your career?

How have our 523 explorations made you feel about the future of open learning and how it might impact your career?   Remember that our course scope includes emerging trends in social, open, flexible and mobile learning, so you are welcome to blend how and where you believe influence will occur. Please share your thoughts, and take […]

W13: Treat or Opportunity: What does mobility mean to your career?

How have our 523 explorations made you feel about the future of mobile learnign and how it might impact your career?  Remember that our course scope includes emerging trends in social, open, flexible and mobile learning, so you are welcome to blend how and where you believe influence will occur. Please share your thoughts, and take the […]

W01: Tribology

This post is a discussion forum for ideas related to W01 – Mobility Perspectives. Specifically, this is a place to share your ideas here about whether the education industry can successfully reinvent itself from the inside, or will it be disrupted by new, more agile entities? INSTRUCTIONS: Read through a set of the existing responses below.  Use the Thumbs […]

THE "OLD" ETEC523

THE "OLD" ETEC523

This site is a complete rebuild of ETEC523, with the original site having reached its operational limitations. As it has not been possible so far to transfer all of the years of content and presence of past ETEC523 students to this site, we offer the following link to the “OLD” site as a place where […]

Origin Post (ignore)

Origin Post (ignore)

This first post opens ETEC523 streams. There is no content in this category previous to this.