The Long Tail of Mobile Learning
From MobileDesign
Presented at Design for Mobile 2009
[edit] Presenter
Judy Breck (GoldenSwamp)
950-1040 | Tuesday
[edit] Abstract
This session will begin with a snapshot of projections showing that by 2015 mobile will be how most people throughout the world learn school subjects / academic knowledge. How then, can we be designing now for the education mobile future – and what will it mean to participate in this major mobile sector?
From 1997-2001, Judy Breck was content master for the largest open collection online of study subjects, homeworkcentral.com. She has tracked open learning content for the past decade. From this background, she will talk about how network effects such as the long tail shape online knowledge content, reasons to separate pedagogy and subject content in mobile material, and the empowerment of individual students by the mobile device that is blind to gender and ethnicity.
Understand from this session the benefits of looking beyond the single education app. Judy will provide specific suggestions for grabbing the online learnable long tail so that your mobile projects let students interact with the emerging global network of knowledge.
[edit] Discussion
[edit] Charles says:April 2, 2009, •Apr02•0932
As our knowledge and society becomes some much more diversified and specializes the "long tail" certaintly conceptually captures the move away from standardized, mass education and the focus on self-directed, individual and collaborative networked learning. I like Breck's foucs on mobile learning in this concept since the learning we envision with be pervasive and independent of place and time.
[edit] Judy Breck says:April 14, 2009, •Apr14•0828
If you would like to play a bit with the long tail of learning before my talk, the animation I just posted on GoldenSwamp.com will let you do that. http://www.goldenswamp.com/2009/04/14/watch-learning-long-tail-emerge/
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