Week 2 Notes
Good Sunday, everyone – It looks like almost everyone is on board and underway now, so bravo. Please let me know if you’re encountering any difficulties with the site, or with leaping forward. And please make sure you’ve completed the Frontiers Poll by the end of today. Meanwhile, this post offers some thoughts about Week […]
Welcome to 523
The video above is the one I recorded at the launch of this course (all new MET courses have a 565 designation – this was originally called ETEC656M until it was regularized as ETEC523). The core message remains true, so I haven’t redone it. All contributors are expected to observe copyright laws, and it is […]
ETEC523 Week 1 Orientation
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A Special Focus on AI
I wanted to offer a few words about the special focus on Artificial Intelligence I intend for this section of ETEC523. There’s a huge AI buzz on. Deservedly so, IMHO. I’m old enough to remember what the world was like before social media, before mobile phones, before computers and before TV. AI is barely nascent […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]