1. Faculty Mobile Learning Day 22/02:
Investigating the Student Tuition Fees Controversy
In December 2010 the UK government Our Tumblr blog is at:
decided to raise the cap on university http://modisday.tumblr.com/
tuition fees to £9000. It also included
part-time students, like those at
the OU, in the same fees and loans
regime as full-time students, for the
first time. This decision triggered
intensive public and political debate,
and sparked massive student protests.
A year on, what can we say about this
move? How will it affect the UK higher
education sector? How will it affect the Install the Tumblr app from the
future of young people in Britain? How will app store / android market. Log in
it affect the UK economy and society? as “modisday@gmail.com” password:
modisday
Your task is to investigate these
questions, by interviewing people around
the OU campus. First, you will use your
mobile devices to do any additional
research you need on the web. Secondly,
working in small groups, you will then
use your mobile devices to record
short interviews. Before setting off for
your interviews, you should agree on
three questions which you will ask your
interviewees. Remember to keep the
click the paper and pencil icon to start a new
interviews short - up to 3 minutes each!
post, select “video”
After c.30 minutes of interviewing you
will reconvene, review these interviews,
and produce a video report from these
interviews, which you will post to the web
using your mobile devices.
In order to conduct the interviews and
produce the final report, you will use a site
and mobile application called Tumblr.
record or choose a previously recorded video
See instructions to the right: to post

2. What Next? Follow-up Information
The OU mobile connections site is a focal point for all OU mobile learning activity:
http://www8.open.ac.uk/about/teaching-and-learning/mobile/
Yishay Mor, Yishay.Mor@open.ac.uk
Mobile phone interviewing
We used Tumblr for this activity, but this is one option out of many, such as Qik and Google+.
MobileActive’s mobile media toolkit has some easy to use guides on mobile media production.
https://www.tumblr.com/
http://qik.com/
http://www.google.com/mobile/+/
http://mobilemediatoolkit.org/
SMS polls
Polleverywhere and smspolls offer basic polling services. For more elaborate interactions,
check out FrontlineSMS and RapidSMS.
http://www.polleverywhere.com/
http://www.smspoll.net/
http://www.rapidsms.org/
http://www.frontlinesms.com/
Mobile Learning Design
ML4D is an example of an initiative which facilitated a design-level discussion among
practitioners in the field of mobile learning for development. It used the Participatory Pattern
Workshop framework.
http://www.ml4d.org/
http://projects.lkl.ac.uk/ppw