E-Toolkit: m-Learning

I used my iPhone to complete this part of the E-Toolkit.  I began by going to UBC WebCT through Google.  It was very easy to find and very quick to load.  The problem I had was the constant reducing of the screen size.  The site was not adapted to a mobile format, which made it a little slow in navigation.  The other problem was that the pop-ups did not always appear in view because the screen was too large but that was fixed be reducing the screen size.   I could not find an app for UBC WebCT or WebCT.  The fact that it works with Safari was fine with me despite the constant screen size fixing.  I could use the phone if I had to, probably would have helped when the power is out!!

Moodle definitely has their target audiences covered.  My Moodle page was easily accessible using Safari and it worked quite well.  Although when I did attempt to load a picture it became slow and again the constant reducing of screen size made it increasingly annoying.  I think that it is handy to edit and check in on Forums but to create a site using a mobile device would be even more labour intensive than it already is.  Moodle did have a number of apps (My Moodle, mTouch, mPage, and iMoodle) with some for teachers, for students, and for quizzes.  It looked like MyMoodle was the official app of Moodle because it was free and Moodle is all about sharing and being an open source program.  The problem I had with the free Moodle app, MyMoodle, was that it stated, “Moodle 2.1 or later is REQUIRED to run this app”.  Since my school district uses 1.9 and UBC is using 2.0, I was out of luck.   I think Moodle, with its apps, is a far more accessible and user friendly when it comes to m-Learning.

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  1. We’re on Moodle 2.1; the app works, sort of. Haven’t tried mTouch in about a year, but it was OK for students and offered little for teachers.

    Some of Vista’s functions require Java and there’s no Java on iOS devices: chat, WIMBA and other tools won’t load at all. There is an official app for Blackboard Learn (UBC’s new LMS)–but our servers are still in the testing phase and the “mobile” setting hasn’t yet been enabled.

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