David Vogt
Week 3: Mobile Culture Review
I want to thank your MET peer Andrew Murray for his fine work in assembling a debut set of Mobile Culture readings and resources for this week. Rather than pretend to set a stage for all of Mobile Culture – which would be fun, to say the least – I will begin by sharing two […]
Week 4: Mobile and Open Learning Review
I’m pleased to acknowledge the excellent efforts of MET alumnus Lorne Upton in pulling together the original seed materials for this section. Mobile and open learning are becoming an integral part of education, K-12, post-secondary, and a myriad of formal and informal learning contexts. There are examples of it everywhere, from singular classrooms to institutions, and […]
Weeks 5-12: A Movable Feast
The objective of each week of the Movable Feast, which are topics presented and hosted by student teams (Assignment 2), will be to continue the mobile immersion by employing whatever platforms, examples, activities, and interactions are most pertinent to each topic. The intended legacy of each group will be a newly-authored and cohort-tested OER (Open […]
Week 13: Mobile Forum
The objective of the Mobile Forum is to provide collective critical review of the individual Forecasting Projects (Assignment 3) posted in the Knowledge Mill. Full instructions for the Mobile Forum are provided in the Weekly Schedule.
W01 Discussions
Discussion Topics MOST SPECIAL: What do you consider is the most important factor, positively or negatively, about the potential of mobile education? SOCIAL NARRATIVE: Can mobile technologies serve to reinvigorate learning’s connection with community, society and culture? CONTEXT: How important is it, how can educators employ it, and how might learners benefit from harnessing their own context better? TRIBOLOGY: Can the education industry successfully reinvent […]
W02 Discussions
Discussion Topics Mobile Technologies I Want To See Someday… What I Hate About Mobile Technologies… If Every Learner Had Just One Mobile Technology It Would Be…
W03 Discussions
Discussion Topics A pleasantly surprising trend in mobile culture… What disturbs me about mobile culture… Fixing the mobile culture gap in education
W04 Discussions
Discussion Topics 1. How are learning contexts affected by changes in mobile technology? 2. How do mobile technologies affect instructional design choices? Have mobile technologies forever altered the role of the teacher/instructor?
W01: What is special about mobile education?
This post is a discussion forum for ideas related to W01 – Mobility Perspectives. Specifically, this is a place to share your ideas about what factors, both positive and negative, distinguish the potentials of mobile education from other learning technologies. INSTRUCTIONS: Read through a set of the existing responses below. Use the Thumbs Up tool to […]
W13 Discussions
Following completion of the Mobile Forum, please contribute to one or more Week 13 Discussions, via the links below, to convey your concluding 523 thoughts: 1. Threat or opportunity? What does mobility mean to your career? 2. Threat or opportunity? What does open learning mean to your career? 3. Where and how should 523 refine its focus?