Mobile Learning: Reaching the Parts That Others Don't Reach

University of Wolverhampton, Telford Campus, 23 June 2003

Scope of the Workshop

Mobile Learning is the latest evolution of e-learning. It's a technology that spans the spectrum of mobile devices from simple SMS 'phones to high specification PDAs, with pedagogic applications including computer science undergraduates at risk, lifelong learners in rural communities, commuters doing business courses and homeless young people improving their literacy and numeracy.

This one-day workshop will bring together a number of leading practitioners from current projects in the growing field of mobile-learning in UK Further and Higher Education. Some of these projects are working at the technological cutting-edge whilst others are working with blends of existing technologies, including PCs and VLEs. The focus of the day will on the practical issues of what's been done, how was it done, did it work and how did we find out.

Cost

Early Bird Rate: £60 (if booking made before 6th June)
Ordinary Rate: £75

Programme

09.30 Coffee and Registration

10:00 PDAs in FE and HE
Prof Ted Smith, Techlearn

10:40 The Nuts and Bolts of PDAs
Jon Trinder, University Of Glasgow

11:20 Addressing Retention with SMS, WAP and WWW.
Brendan Riordan, University of Wolverhampton

12:00 Mobile Learning on a Grand Scale
Carol Savill-Smith, LSDA

12:30 M-portal - Interface Issues
Alice Mitchell/Kris Popat, Ultralab

12.50 Lunch

13:20 Teaching Programming - A Dog's Life
Martyn Colliver, University of Warwick

14:00 Evaluating a low specification wirelessly connected PDAs as the means of supporting learning.
Andy Ramsden, University of Bristol

14:40 Mobile Learning- Not how it could, but rather why it would be used
Chris Tompsett, Kingston University

15:20 Evaluation issues
John Traxler, National ICT Research Centre

15.50 Tea and Close

For more information

http://www.ics.ltsn.ac.uk/events/m-learning/