Hello, I’m your Instructor – David Vogt
Hi everyone! Thanks for coming together – in a virtuous virtual sense – during this transformative time for humanity, to explore the broadly transformative potentials for human society, culture and education available within mobile and open learning technologies. Following is my original Author video for this course (it was raining that day for the video, […]
Mobile Collaboration
Discussion: Many beneficial elements of face-to-face collaboration may never be replaced by any technology, but the pressing need to convene distributed teams, cohorts and individuals to collectively explore ideas and resolve complex challenges has inspired the development of scores of networked collaboration technologies. At first glance it might seem infeasible to collapse such systems into a handheld […]
DIY Learning
Discussion: The DIY (Do It Yourself) and Maker movements are being supported by the wealth of practical knowledge and sharing spaces blooming everywhere on the web, inspiring a Renaissance 2.0 of creativity. DIY Learning is a distinctively crowd-sourced and mobile phenomenon that encourages everyone to believe they can learn to do anything at a competent level if they just connect […]
Mobile Games
Discussion: A new generation of learners has difficulty sitting still in a classroom listening to a teacher lecture, and do not have the patience to read a novel, yet they can sit and play a video game for hours. Through mobile games they can memorize move combinations, navigate maps with ease, and create complex worlds. 523 Inspiration: With the concept of mobile games in […]
Big Data
Discussion: “Big data” includes large, complex, diverse, and unstructured collections of data sets that cannot be easily parsed with common tools. These massive data sets are gathered by a range of technologies, including mobile devices. As data sets grow in size, so too must our ability and capacity to capture, store, analyze, search, visualize, and […]
5G Networks
Discussion: So, you think you know what mobile feels like? Think again. Next generation 5G wireless network potentials are underway. Some things to expect: 523 Inspiration: So, what happens to learning and teaching? It is, and increasingly will be, in your hands…
Podcasts
Discussion: Somewhat like the return of vinyl records, the recent resurgence of the Podcast medium, initially on the back of some hyper-popular journalistic properties, might have been unexpected. Podcasts demonstrate the enduring power of sound, the spoken word, and narrative, above and beyond the engagement possible with visual media. It is probably safe to say that the […]
Augmented Reality
Discussion: Augmented Reality (AR) is about layering virtual media over real world experiences, on the fly, to provide additional context, narrative & interaction potential. 523 Inspiration: AR enables any environment to be interwoven with innumerable rich learning opportunities designed for specific audiences. The magic is in the ability to engage responsively with aspects of a learner’s objective and personal contexts to stage authentic, meaningful, […]
Micro-Expression
Discussion: Tweeting, retweeting, liking, rating, reviewing, recommending, TikToking, etc., are all aspects of Micro-Expression, and are the basic currency of digital presence and identity. 523 Inspiration: Humanity has long been expert with tiny social communications such as sounds, words, gestures, looks, etc, but these have always been fleeting – quickly lost in time. We have therefore educated our […]
Cloud Memory
Discussion: Cloud Memory refers to the opportunity of mining any history of related events that are stored on the web. 523 Inspiration: In the case of education such events could be a vast eportfolio of everything you have read and created since early childhood, including a mapping of your learning styles and abilities. The field of “learning analytics” imagines that […]