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WCET Focus Area: Mobility
Background
Mobility is changing life as we know it. Mobile devices such as cell phones, handhelds, notebooks, ereaders and ebooks are sparking a period of innovation for learning technology stakeholders of all kinds. Our challenge as learning professionals is to make mobile learning so compelling that stakeholders continue to see possibilities, not problems.
WCET Mobility Activities
Annual Meeting – See mobile apps in action. Enjoy featured sessions on designing mobile experiences for learning and how to get started creating your own mobile applications. Register for Annual Meeting.
Featured Summit – Join WCET and our sponsors in the Spring of 2011 as we explore the impact of mobility – from iPhones and iPads to Kindles and eBooks – on learning and performance support.
eLearning Roadtrip Blog - Resources supporting mobile learning developments.
Education to Go: Mobile Learning Today, WCET April 2009 webcast, featuring Abilene Christian University and George Fox University.
Mobility Resources
Getting Started with Mobile Learning
- Why a mobile learning project? What is it that a mobile learning project will allow you to do that you could not do before?
- What do you really want to do? Is the fascination with the attraction of offering learning stakeholders something new and different? Are there people in the field who won't have the resources they need without a mobile learning solution? Are you simply curious?
- How you know when you have met your goal? How will you know if your mobile initiative made a difference?
- What unique result do you want your mobile learning effort to achieve?
- What technologies do you need to get started? What devices will you support? What network will you use? What carrier will you choose? Will you establish strict selection policies, or will you try to integrate everyone's devices regardless of operating system?
- For whom is your mobile initiative intended? Will it be for everyone, or will you focus more on the needs of traveling faculty, or will it be aimed more at distributed students?
- What will your stakeholders need to be successful? Will they know what is expected?
- How are you going to fund it? How are you going to sustain it, and for how long?
- How will you evaluate your effectiveness?
