eLearning is Dead Long Live mLearning

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eLearning is DeadLong Live mLearning!

• Steve Howard (MSc)
• Magnolia Multimedia
• www.magnoliamultimedia.com
• steve_at_magnoliamultimedia.com

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Long Live mLearning!

• Introduction Who am I?
• What is mLearning?
• What Sort of Devices?
• What Sort of Content?
• Other Applications
• Tools
• Play Time!

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Who Am I?

• Steve Howard
• Authorware Developer since 1997
• Independent Contractor since 2001
• Owner of EuroTAAC since 2001
• www.tomorrows-key.com
• www.eurotaac.com
• www.magnoliamultimedia.com
• Adobe Community Expert Authorware and Flash
  Mobile and Devices
• I am A MAD ACE ?

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What is mLearning?

• Delivery of content to Mobile Devices
• Short Lessons
• Small Files
• Web Based?
• Corporate
• University
• School
• Consumer

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What Sort of Devices?

• Laptop
• PDA
• Phone
• SmartPhone
• Blackberry
• iPOD
• Portable Media Player
• UMPC (Ultra-mobile PC handtop) FlyBook,
  Origami, OQO, DualCor
• But we are talking about pocketable devices
  today!
• Other?

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What Sort of Content?

• Text
• HTML
• PDF
• Video
• Mp3/PodCast
• Flash
• Email
• Just In Time!
• SMS !!! Texting occurs within and between
  nearly every social situationdriving, going to
  the theatre, attending classesdespite the
  abhorrently kludgey interface (Bryan Alexander
  2004)
• Voice recognition, Text-to-speech
• Interactive? Engaging? Navigation on mobile
  devices is cumbersome and time-consuming because
  of their limited screen size Stephen J.H. Yang
  et al (2003)

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Ex Lib no lack of didactic fantasy

• Training developers often lack the imagination to
  produce engaging interactive training.
• In fact engaging content on PDA is entirely
  possible, but it requires more advanced tools
  than HTML Steve Howard (2006)
• http//www.exlib.no/

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Other Applications

• Self-made Training
• Context-aware
• Convert existing web- and desktop-based training
• Elementary School
• Collaborative Learning wireless classroom
  interaction
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Spacial Context - Museums, Conferences
  http//www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/invis
  ible_ideas.html
• MobiLearn Project

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Tools

• C, C, Java, eVB, eVC
• .NET Compact Framework, Micro Framework
• HTML, PDF, Word, PowerPoint
• Flash
• Flash Lite 1, 2, (2.1 Brew, WM5)
• Video tools
• The devices themselves!

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Playtime

• Lets take a few minutes to look at what devices
  you have, what I brought and look at a couple of
  applications.

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Thank You

• If you have any additional questions, please
  email me
• Steve_at_magnoliamultimedia.com