Sue Waters – Challenger TAFE
M-learning
Digital learners learn better when engaged.
E-learning – any sort of delivery facilitated by electronic device
M-learning – portable technologies – allabout being mobile.
Mobility now like net in 96 – then everyone discounted the Internet, worried that it would just encourage games. Smartphone and PPC mag (Feb/Mar 2007 Vol 10, no 1)
TAFE moving from campus-based delivery – into the workforce.
Different assumptions:
Uni – elearn avail for every unit
Vocational and tech ed – not assumed
Trevor Bennett (ECU)
Kate Quinn – differences in how TAFE uses interactive tools to create materials
Uni – widespread, automated
VET- localized, cottage
Unis not thinking about pedagogy – just sticking content on web.. not thinking about how learners learn
Engage not enrage!!
Mobile networks very expensive.
But most students have mobiles!!
Yesterday – iPhone Day – was a very important day.
Decline of the web browser? Silverlight is geared for mobile use…
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[...] Constance (librarian) and Kate (PhD student), from Curtin University, gave a fantastic talk about ”Introducing Web2.0 to n00bs”. Good to know the challenges I face with staff professional development in VET are no different to the University sector. I did record this session but plan to track both of them down and follow up with in depth podcasts. [...]