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How—and Why—We Can Improve the Future of Mobile Learning

Edsurge

When Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) were first introduced, people quickly realized these platforms could help students learn more effectively at their own pace on their own schedule. Despite this promising beginning, the role of mobile devices in the classroom and in education overall is still rather limited.

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Learning at the Speed of Technology - David Jakes

EdTechSandyK

The emerging model in business today is BYO3 - Bring Your Own Laptop/Tablet/Phone We are coming to a price point where schools can provide small tablets and allow students to bring their own devices for learning as well. Are you designing for mobile? We are still on the grid model - classrooms with desks in rows. mySchool app?

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Any colour you like: Learner autonomy and choice

Learning with 'e's

autonomy e-reader education flipped classroom Games console intrinsic learning MOOC motivation smart mobile student choice Technology' In the wider educational sense, autonomy has connotations of choice, including decisions about what one learns, where one learns it, and at what pace it is learnt. Now that is all about to change.

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10 Experts’ Predictions for Education and Technology in 2016

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Mobile learning. It is therefore important that eLearning content is mobile supported. Many online learning platforms can be used with smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers. Because mobile learning is a trend, one’s own online content should always be tested for smartphone and tablet use.

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Removing the Obstacles in Education so Innovation and Academics Can Flourish

The Principal of Change

If you’re thinking you don’t have the time, remember that your technology is mobile. You can do what I did; take your computer or tablet and work in classrooms. If we want “innovation” to flourish in our schools, we have to be willing to immerse ourselves in the environments where it is going to happen.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. Mobile : as humanity continues to migrate ever-increasing swathes of life into handhelds, educators slowly follow suit. Let’s also think about mobile messaging apps (Snapchat, etc).

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

I asked if the mobile world offers a partial way to address inequality of access, since we know poorer Americans, plus blacks and hispanics, tend to use mobile devices more often and for more purposes than wealthy and white people. For example, MOOCs are still weak on completion and learning, but evolving.

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