1. LocalLearn Scenarios:
Help us shape the next big thing
Mobile Learning Day, 22 Feb. 2012
The Open University's Institute of Educational Technology

2. What’s the story?
• LocalLearn is a new initiative driven by the Open Media
Unit.
• It proposes to use mobile and social media to develop
means of accessing locally relevant free educational
material / services from the Open University
• IET are helping define and design the thing that
LocalLearn will be.
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3. ‘Go Further with the OU’
Aims
• Awareness - Enhancing OU brand through association with mobile services and
reinforcing idea of OU - open and relevant to people anywhere, any time. Exploiting
innovative semantic/linked data and ‘social layer’ activity to enhance service.
• Engagement - Means of engaging learners at point of need/interest based on location
exploration and relevance.
• Conversion - Clear routes from free and open materials, locally relevant to formal study
opportunities. Opportunity to indicate local study centres/study buddies.
• Asset Return - Using power of crowd to user tag and relate materials, using semantic
web activity to enhance existing Open Media materials with geo-relevance.
• Opportunity to monetise service.
• Opportunity to build relations (and expose OU content) with new partnersincluding
National Trust, British Library
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4. Your job
You will be presented with two usage scenarios we have envisioned for LocalLearn. These
scenarios try to depict potential users and their possible patterns of use. Put yourself in
these users’ shoes, and walk through the scenarios.
• Are you convinced that they describe a genuine need and address it adequately?
• Are they tempting, exciting, inspiring? Do you imagine the technology inducing a change
of practice?
• What are the possible points of failure?
• How could the scenarios be extended / enhanced / improved?
Scribble your comments on the paper version,
Or comment online at
https://plus.google.com/u/0/115266299555131737575
Or text 460653 followed by frame number and your comment to 07624806527
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5. Scenario 1: Joe Kirpati's business
trip to Perth
Joe Kirpati
is driving to
Perth for a
business
meeting

6. As he drinks his
History morning coffee,
Nature
he uses google
Literature
Architecture
maps app on
his phone to
plot the route,
and uses the
LocalLearn
plugin to note
his interests

7. On the way, the
LocalLearn
apps reads out
content about
places he
passes by the
interests he
noted.

8. When
something
sparks his
interest, he taps
the phone to
save it for later.
Save

9. Joe arrives early, so he uses his laptop to follow
up on the points of interest he saved. The links
take him to the relevant OpenLearn pages.
LocalLearn.ac.uk Joe Kirpati
Melrose Abbey
Hadrian’s wall
Millenium bridge,
Newcastle

10. Scenario 2: The Kirpati's trip to the
Lake District
Meet the Kirpati family from Leeds
Android iPhone
phone Kobo
Android
phone Simple
Laptop
(cheap) phone
Joe Beth Clarisse (15) Maisy (12)

11. Beth planning the family holiday
Google.com
Windermere
Plan your trip with LocalLearn.ac.uk
OpenUniversity's
LocalLearn? Register | Download app
LocalLearn.ac.uk Beth Kirpati Download app
My Learning Trails | My local area | Plan a trip

12. Beth plans a trip:
Marks a route on the map, notes interests, system recommends relevant
content, chooses and arranges.
Shares her trail with family members
LocalLearn.ac.uk Beth Kirpati Download app
Plan a trip : Lake District
* Beatrix Potter
* William
Wordsworth
beatrix * .....
potter * .....
Share this trail with
a friend

13. email from: LocalLearn.ac.uk
Beth shared the learning trail "lake district" with you
Register | Download app
LocalLearn.ac.uk Joe Kirpati Download app
Plan a trip : Lake District
Joe receives the
invite from Beth, * Beatrix Potter
registers * William Wordsworth
and notes his Wray * Wray Castle
interests (scenery, Castle * .....
gardens)
edits the trail.
Share this trail with
a friend

14. iPhone
Download
LocalLearn
Android
Kobo phone
Download Download
LocalLearn LocalLearn

15. Durring the Kobo
drive to
Windermere,
the girls read
through the
trail, and
discuss the
information
with the
parents.

16. At Wrey Castle,
Clarisse takes a
photo with her phone
and attaches it to the
family trail
She also spots an
interesting mushroom
and uses the iSpot
tab to upload it and
link it to their trail

17. Back in the B&B
the family uses
Joe's laptop to
follow up on the
days experiences,
and check out the
links the system LocalLearn.ac.uk Joe Kirpati
suggests

18. http://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/LTE1OTA5NzgyOTU
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19. Thank You!
Yishay Mor
Yishay.Mor@open.ac.uk
http://iet.open.ac.uk/Yishay.Mor
http://www.slideshare.net/yish/mobile-learning-day-
locallearn-scenarios
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