These are the slides from the 'Introducing Active Mobile Learning' workshop I gave at Learning at City 2019 (the 10th conference in the series). The workshop was slightly experimental, with a mobile learning activity to open with, and a presentation on some of the key messages around my wireless collaboration project at City. It also gave an opportunity to formally launch a Community of Practice at the event.

1. APPS
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3. AGC iPhone XS
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5. Contents
The mobile
learning paradox
Towards wireless
collaboration
Introducing active
mobile learning
(AML)
Direction of travel
+ another activity

7. Students at University Missouri School of Journalism, with laptops open in a lecture hall. From Wikimedia Commons, by Brett Jordan (CC-BY 2.0)

8. Introducing the mobile learning paradox
Mobile is typically personal…
…whereas learning is both personal and social
‘Infinity’ by Vadim Wayer (Flickr)

9. Wireless collaboration as potential solution
…two or more people working together to complete a task or achieve a
goal, which is enabled by the use of mobile digital devices and where
content can be shared to a common display.
Laurillard’s six learning types (2012):
• Acquisition
• Inquiry
• Discussion
• Practice
• Collaboration
• Production
Laurillard, D. (2012). Teaching as a design science: Building pedagogical patterns for
learning and technology. Routledge.

10. Demand at City
City staff responses to survey question on what they’d like to see more of in City’s learning spaces (2014-15)

11. Presenting wirelessly
from my iPad or laptop
onto the projector
screen would be great.
City academic, LEaD staff interview, 2014

13. Wireless Collaboration in
Civil Engineering Labs
http://bit.ly/CivEngWiCoCaseStudy

14. Active Mobile Learning (AML)
…making active use of mobile devices to
support and/or augment teaching and
learning, and particularly within social,
face-to-face contexts.
An approach intended to support doing
things with mobile devices primarily within
physical learning spaces.

15. Affordances and possibilities
• Mobility (through space, time,
connectivity)
• Situated
• Widely available
• Inbuilt microphones and
speakers
• Stills and video cameras
• Messaging & communication
• Instruments of measurement
• Integration with other devices
(such as wearables or other
Bluetooth peripherals)
• Interaction with environment
(QR, AR, gestures)
• No institutional installation
permission needed
• Quick, instant feedback

16. Capabilities

17. SAMR framework
https://www.schrockguide.net/samr.html
Podcast lectures over live delivery,
video presentations recorded by
students
Moodle Quiz for MCQs, providing
automated feedback
Collaborative document editing with
group chat functionality
Create and produce essay as online
video

19. Our course as a
whole is not mature
enough for that
power.
LLB student, Jisc Digital Experiences survey, 2019

20. Where next at City
Active Mobile Learning via Wireless Collaboration pilots (2019-21)
• What impact does introducing wireless collaboration into
learning spaces have on teaching and learning?
• What do wireless collaboration technologies afford staff and
students to do in face-to-face situations that they can't easily
do without them?
• Do wireless collaboration technologies bring something new to
teaching and learning?
• Can wireless collaboration technologies bring improvements to
existing approaches?
• What are staff and students’ experiences of AML via wireless
collaboration technology?

21. Join our AML Community of Practice…
• To help staff make better use of their
devices
• To develop staff abilities, competences
and even perceptions of using mobile
devices for educational purposes
• To foster a critical dialogue for airing
concerns and challenges about wider
use of mobile learninghttp://bit.ly/WiCoCoP

22. Now over to you…