Planning for our Success 

Applying the lessons learned from global technology innovation projects 

Classrooms around the world are transforming

Is your classroom evolving with technology in education?

Are you using technology to enhance student learning?

Change can be scary, but it can bring rewards

Would you like to see your students more engaged?

Would you like to see students take more ownership of their learning?

Mobile Learning

YOU can make a difference!

Taking advantage of mobile devices in the

classroom can increase engagement,

collaboration and student motivation.

Mobile learning initiative at Lamar

We have to plan for our initiative’s success by learning from others that have implemented similar initiatives.

Mobile learning is happening all across the world. We must move forward to stay relevant and provide our

student’s the skills they need to be successful.

Mobile Learning: Innovation we need

“Innovation should be considered a value at university, a characteristic that sets it apart from the rest. In this sense, innovation with mobile devices requires the establishment of communications channels and opportunities for thought, reflection, and collaboration to foster the

effective and efficient engagement of the teaching staff, management board and students.”

The Impact of Digital Mobile Devices in Higher Education, 2015

How do we plan for success?

Look to mobile initiatives in global contexts and discover:What worked?What could have been done better?How do we apply these lessons learned?

It starts with vision and leadership.

 LA’s iPad debacle

vision should focus on pedagogy and learning goals then focus on the technology that will achieve the vision. 

leaders should investigate best practices for deploying tech projects

Vision – the idea of what you want to achieve, the WHY

Leadership – the process to achieve your vision, the HOW

Use a blended approach

Turning on Mobile Learning in Europe:

o Mobile devices should be used as a compliment to computers or laptops rather than replacements.

o Most successful projects blended mobile devices with desktop computers.

Better policies for mobile use in classrooms

Turning on Mobile Learning in North America:

o Move beyond the stigma attached to mobiles being a distraction in class.

o Improved guidelines for mobile use in regards to digital citizenship and security concerns.

Robust professional development

and tech support

A focus on pedagogical strategies for implementing mobile learning.Adoption is an ongoing process.

o Teacher readinesso Level of ICT skillso Placement of pedagogical guideso Peer tutoring, creation of a Personal

Learning Communityo Availability of technical support for devices

and infrastructureo Success models

Personal Learning Community

Sandy Schuck writes, in Mobile Learning in Higher Education: Mobilizing staff to use technologies in their teaching, about how PLCs can provide support for educators by bringing people together with a shared goal and a desire to grow and develop professionally. Key success factors: Used the process of action learning – learning by setting goals and acting to attain

them. Members should have a common interest and have stakes in investigating mobile

learning. Development of Mobile Pedagogical Framework which considers the

characteristics of learning with mobile technologies and how those can be used for effective teaching.

Working in a supportive community enhances experience and outcomes.

Monitoring and Evaluation

Continuous monitoring and evaluation will ensure improvement and sustainability.

o Focus group discussions to attain participant and faculty opinions and attitudes about the mobile learning initiative (eSkwela, Phillipines, 2009)

o Surveys and reports that relay feedback

What’s so special about mobile learning?

Imagine learning taking place anywhere, anytime inside or outside of school, in the work place, out in the field, never-ending.

-ICT in Innovative Schools: Case Studies of Change and Impact, n.d.

It can help us to create seamless and continuous

educational opportunities to support lifelong learning in

all contexts.

The Bottom Line

“According to UNESCO’s report on mobile learning in North America, it involves more than merely incorporating new technology into current pedagogical strategies; it requires an instructional paradigm shift that

promises to fundamentally change the way students learn.”

-- S. Jhoanna Robledo, Mobile Devices for Learning: What you need to know, 2012.

I hope to apply these lessons learned for success of our mobile learning initiative

WHY?At Lamar University, we believe in cultivating sophisticated learners that will thrive in today’s society and in the future by empowering them with life-long

learning skills.

Our shared persistence and influence will determine the

scope of our success and ensure sustainability of

mobile learning at Lamar.Let’s DO this!

References

Chambers, B. (2014, August 28). L.A. cancels iPads-in-the-schools program: a failure of vision, not technology. Retrieved from http://www.macworld.com/article/2599988/lausd-ipad-cancellation-is-a-failure-of-vision-not-technology.html 

Eden Dahlstrom, with D. Christopher Brooks, Susan Grajek, and Jamie Reeves. ECAR Study of Students and Information Technology, 2015. Research report. Louisville, CO: ECAR, December 2015. 

Edutopia.org, & Robledo, S. J. (2012). Mobile Devices for Learning: What You Need to Know (available in Spanish). Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/mobile-devices-learning-resource-guide

Fritschi, J., & Wolf, M.A.  (2012). Turning on Mobile Learning in North America: Illustrative Initiatives and Policy Implications (Working paper). Retrieved from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) website: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/m4ed/mobile-learning-resources/unescomobilelearningseries/  

References

Haddad, W. D. (2007). ICTs for Education: A Reference Handbook. Retrieved from http://www.ictinedtoolkit.org/usere/p_page.php?section_number=0  

Hylen, J. (2012). Turning on Mobile Learning in Europe: Illustrative Initiatives and Policy Implications (Working paper No. 216165). Retrieved from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) website: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/m4ed/mobile-learning-resources/unescomobilelearningseries/

Isaacs, S. (2012). Turning on Mobile Learning in in Africa and the Middle East: Illustrative Initiatives and Policy Implications (Working paper No. 216359). Retrieved from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) website: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/m4ed/mobile-learning-resources/unescomobilelearningseries/

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References

Lapowsky, I. (2015, May 8). What Schools Must Learn from LA’s iPad Debacle. Retrieved from https://www.wired.com/2015/05/los-angeles-edtech/ 

Lugo, M. T., & Schurmann, S. (2012). Turning on Mobile Learning in Latin America: Illustrative Initiatives and Policy Implications (Working paper No. 216080). Retrieved from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) website: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/m4ed/mobile-learning-resources/unescomobilelearningseries/  

Schuck, S. (2015, March). Elearn Magazine: Mobile Learning in Higher education: Mobilizing staff to use technologies in their teaching. Retrieved from https://elearnmag.acm.org/featured.cfm?aid=2749226 

Sevillano-García, M.ª L., & Vázquez-Cano, E. (2015). The Impact of Digital Mobile Devices in Higher Education. Educational Technology & Society, 18 (1), 106–118. 

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