Presented by Andy Black at the RSC Eastern VLE forum, 12th Nov 2010. http://info.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/events/event_details.asp?eid=796

1. VLEs: Straight Jackets or Lego?

2. What ever the age what ever the
technology what ever the age its
no less advanced just different

3. E books and E book reader format
wars

4. Future of the book forward looking
http://vimeo.com/15142335

5. The world has changed
Mobile phone companies more trusted than
banks. Mobile phone companies may become
banks M passa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TapwpN31jtY

6. M-Pesa, the Kenyan branchless banking system
undoubtedly stole the headlines, judging by the
Tweets and ReTweets and is a very African success
story. Not only is it now the biggest bank in the world
with 8 million customers, but annual money transfers
are now equivalent to 20 – 25% of Kenya’s total GDP,
depending on who you believe has the most up-to-
date facts. Many banks will clearly try to replicate this
and probably most will fail, but it does paint a great
picture
http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2010/10/01/crowd-sourcing-b

10. The Growth of Mobile
International telecoms unit
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?
key=tUzZsw5SoG_jXRDl6p8tRCg&single=true&gid
=0&output=html
Google spreadsheet of International Telecoms
Union (ITU) data on mobile phone penetration
for all countries from 1998-2008
Live chart player

11. A
technology when invented
thought to have no practical and
especially no com
m
ercial use

12. • “We sat there discussing the route taken by a
text message from a mobile through the
paging system. Juhani had brought a
programmable calculator with him. We
realized that the numerical keypad could also
be used for letters. Then it struck us that the
paging system was not needed, it was just a
detour. There was nothing to stop the mobile
phone itself from receiving a text message.”

13. What do you use your phone for ?
What d
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/u-s-teen-mobile-
report-calling-yesterday-texting-today-using-apps-tomorrow/ 14/10/2010

14. • When most everyone shouts, few listen. How
about electronic publishing? Try reading a
book on disc. At best, it's an unpleasant chore:
the myopic glow of a clunky computer
replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you
can't tote that laptop to the beach. Yet
Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT
Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books
and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh,
sure.

16. Examples of getting it wrong
•Every town will need a telephone
•The world will only need 5 or 6 computers
•SMS will never catch on
•The internet is a new idea of a network
(Learn from the telegraph in the US in the 1890 )

17. ICT in FE 2006
Its not the things you predict its the things
you miss that matter

18. The technology connectivity inverted pyramid
Actually
multiple
pyramids

19. Mobile Learning or Learner
Mobility

20. Complicated APPS for
smart phones campus info
Mobile access to institutional services
Molly Project (Mobile Oxford)
Tribal MIS systems (70% of UK Higher Ed)

21. The future answer for rich content across devices is
the browser (I might be wrong )
The solutions for now
• Apps (native)
• Downloading/preloading content
• Top rate instructional design
• Simple but clever . Complicated and clever
road to disaster
• Robust delivery platforms for and in the future
(you choose ?)

22. Thanks for listening