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Mobile learning and ESOL students studying Childcare

Introduction/overview: Newham College of Further Education is situated in the London Borough of Newham which is ranked as one of the most disadvantaged areas in the UK with relatively low levels of educational attainment and high levels of unemployment, one parent families and sub-standard housing. The on-going physical, economic and social regeneration of the borough is greatly assisted by the location of 2012 Olympics and Para-Olympics.The purpose or problem to be solved: how does the use of mobile learning outside the classroom impact on students’ E3 and L1 reading and writing skills and what does it take to make mobile learning sustainable?
from LSN on 07 January 2010

Mobile Works 2

Introduction/overview: The National Star College is an independent, Specialist College providing for learners who have physical disabilities and/or acquired brain injuries alongside associated learning, behavioural, sensory and medical difficulties. This project aimed to support preparation for work and employment focussing on accessibility for these learners. The Project involved feedback from both learners and staff, collected via video and audio recordings, interviews and staff focus group. The eight participant students (five male, three female) were in the 19+ age group, with moderate and severe learning difficulties and mental ill health. There were four participant staff (one male, three female).Intended outcomes: To trial whether using mobile technology with learning objects focussing on specific tasks would allow learners to carry out work-related tasks with increasing autonomy. It sought evidence of transferrable skills, and increased student confidence and initiation of tasks.
from LSN on 18 December 2009

Mobile Works

Introduction/overview: The National Star College is an independent specialist college providing for learners who have physical disabilities and/or acquired brain injuries alongside associated learning, behavioural, sensory and medical difficulties. This project aimed to support travel training, focussing on accessibility for these learners. The Project involved feedback from both learners and staff, collected via video and audio recordings, interviews and staff focus groups. The four participant students (three male, one female) were in the 16 – 18 years age group, with moderate learning difficulties. There were four participant staff (1 male, 3 female).Intended outcomes: To trial whether using mobile technology with learning objects focussing on specific tasks would allow learners to carry out travel routines with increasing autonomy. It sought evidence of transferrable skills, and increased student confidence and initiation of tasks.
from LSN on 18 December 2009

Active Citizenship

Entry to Employment is aimed at 16-19 year olds that are looking to find full-time employment or want to progress onto Further Education courses. E2E works with learners of varing abilities (from Entry 2 up to Level 2). The programme has three core strands Basic and Key Skills, Personal and Social Development and Vocational Development. Learners partipicate in a 16 hour a week programme, whereby they work towards developing the core strands detailed above.In the context of this case study, learners were working towards an Active Citizenship programme, whereby they were required to take photographs of their local community and produce a poster. Learners were given the mobile phone devices and were tasked to go around Daventry and to take photographs of places/attactions in their local area.On completion of this task they were required to download the images and use 12 of the picture to produce a poster to promote Daventry.This activity was completed in pairs.
from LSN on 18 December 2009

WILMA Work based individualised learning through MP4 Applications

The WILMA project at Hastings College involved 162 learners and 20 members of staff, of which 14 were teaching staff. The learners were drawn from 3 curriculum areas, Construction, Hair and Beauty, and Academy 6* (AS/A level learners) The learners were a mixture of levels, 1,2, and 3, and the majority were aged 16 – 19. The project was designed to investigate the use of MP4 (iPod touch) mobile technology to aid learning, supported by a Wiki to encourage social networking. Staff were trained to create media rich content to enable learning to take place anywhere at a time to suit the learners.The aim of the project was to demonstrate the use of personal MP3/4 players across a range of learning activities. It was intended to measure the impact of m-learning on learner success, and to analyse the results. A further aim was to demonstrate the ease with which Staff can learn to develop media rich learning content and how such content, once developed can be used in a variety of teaching and learning environments.
from LSN on 18 December 2009

Connect to Succeed

The Connect to Succeed project run by the Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education utilised mobile technology to improve retention and achievement within identified curriculum areas, through improved access to learning resources across the campus. This access utilised hand-held devices and new accessibility via WiFi on the Institute fleet of coaches and buses, which are used daily by learners who travel from rural locations up to 50 miles away.The project allowed the Institute to purchase mobile internet tablets for 250 learners, WiFi routers for 10 of the mobile fleet and build m-learning to enable students to access course information on the Institute’s VLE, Moodle, the internet and in user group portals created for their courses.
from LSN on 18 December 2009

Move industry into the classroom and the classroom into industry Flip It

A project that seeks to transform the learning experience of work based learners. Creating a community of empowered professionals, achievers and lifelong learners. The Partnership supplied, mobile, collaborative, personalised learning opportunities. Enabling flexible access through mobile digital inclusion to widen the participation of learners in rural communities or non-technology based vocational areas. The initial areas of work based learning were Hospitality Apprenticeship and Train to Gain and Health and Social Care Apprenticeship.
from LSN on 18 December 2009

Blackberry - Mobile Works!

This case study involves a broad cross section of the College community involved in the management and delivery of apprenticeships, including learners and assessors. The focus was a pilot for a mobile solution to improve timely communication across the organisation with a focus on the future use for work based learning. All involved with this case study had differing levels of ability in terms of the use and understanding of mobile technology, no training was given.Intended outcomes: The intention of the pilot was:• to explore the potential to make learning more accessible for work based learners and their assessors• to introduce the College Senior Management team to mobile technology• to trial the new Blackberry server
from LSN on 18 December 2009

Using mobile technologies for induction

With the College moving into a new campus, the learners' learning resources induction was a challenge to both staff and learners. Staff were very much learning about their new environment and had to impart this information to learners through induction. We chose to experiment with QR codes for information dissemination and the student response systems (SRS) to make the induction evaluation process more interactive, and improve data collection efficiency.
from Walsall College of Arts and Technology on 14 November 2009

Sampling sounds using mobile phones

We have used mobile phone technology within class to record samples for a unit on sound FX. Portable audio recording is quite expensive, needs safety forms completed, college licenses and electrical power to travel with. Students have this technology in their pockets with the audio recorders as mobile phones. On location, students have recorded doors slamming, keyboard taps, keys jangling and imported these sounds onto a computer. It was a quick and easily process compared to setting up location recording.
from Redbridge College on 13 November 2009