David Vogt
Sharing Everything
Discussion: One of the leading friction-reducing phenomena flowing from mobility is the so-called Sharing Economy, with proponents such as Airbnb and Uber, wherein somebody creates a mobile application which makes it trivially easy for any person A who needs X to find and make a deal with any person Y, who is willing to offer X, whatever that […]
Smart Communities
Discussion: The global “Smart City” movement is about harnessing sensor data of all kinds to make cities more efficient and offer better services to residents. However, these initiatives model cities as ‘machines’ rather than human communities, and forget that the smartest sensors in any city have two legs. Smart Communities is about the ways that passive and active information […]
Transhumanity
Discussion: Beyond smartphones, Google Glass, and wearable technologies, we’ve entered an age where our DNA can be edited, our microbiomes can be cultivated, and connected devices can be implanted in us, or attached to us, to repair or extend our ‘natural’ abilities. Eyeglasses have been around for 700 years, so this isn’t exactly ‘new’, but […]
MOOCs
Discussion: Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been around for several years, with large companies like Coursera, Udacity, and EdX battling for marketshare, their flexibility endgame being to offer every element of education from K-12 through college, graduate and professional schools online, largely for free, with the potential to completely disrupt existing education institutions and global markets […]
How to Begin
So if you are joining the course now, please first walk through all of the Instructions posts. You are currently in the second Instructions post. Next is the Course Manual, then the Weekly Schedule, Assignments and Participation Guidelines. You can see all of the Instructions posts be selecting “Instructions” within the Category field in the […]
Riding and Being the Flow
All posts in this category prior to this one are from previous cohorts – you are riding forth on the wave of knowledge they created – it is more than an archive: it is a continuing conversation where it is now your turn to speak. Your role is to add value to their knowledge stream, […]
AR Hide and Seek
I came across an article about the Cat & Mouse Game that is becoming very popular in China, and is a nice example of mobile augmented reality. Sounds like fun!
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 […]
Week 1: Mobility Perspectives
Ok, what’s so special about mobile learning? 523 weeks 1-4, the Mobility phase, are the beginning of an answer to this question. In week 1 you participate in a flash-poll (“Frontiers Poll”) on the mobile ideas, trends and technologies identified by primary research firms and pundits as the most current and critical for everyone to pay attention to. […]
Week 2: Mobile Technology Review
Appropriate to the collective authorship theme of 523, I would like to acknowledge that the ‘seed’ Week 2 materials were originally assembled by MET alumnus Ping Zhang. Mobile technology has changed our world and lives immensely. What is inside this technology? Where did it evolve from? What are the trends? How do networks and devices cooperate […]