Showing papers by "Mike Sharples published in 2008"

Challenges in Evaluating Mobile Learning

Abstract: We propose six challenges in evaluating mobile learning: capturing and analysing learning in context and across contexts, measuring mobile learning processes and outcomes, respecting learner/participant privacy, assessing mobile technology utility and usability, considering the wider organisational and socio-cultural context of learning, and assessing in/formality. A three-level framework for evaluating mobile learning is presented, comprising a micro level concerned with usability, a meso level concerned with the learning experience, and a macro level concerned with integration within existing educational and organisational contexts. The paper concludes with a discussion of how the framework meets the evaluation challenges and with suggestions for further extensions.

Web 2.0 technologies for learning at Key Stages 3 and 4:summary report

Abstract: The research project on Web 2.0 technologies for learning at Key Stages 3 and 4 was a major initiative funded by Becta to investigate the use and impact of such technologies in and out of school. The purpose of this research was to help shape Becta's own thinking and inform policy-makers, schools and local authorities on the potential benefits of Web 2.0 technologies and how their use can be effectively and safely realised. This document is he summary of the reports published for this project.

Learning 21st century science in context with mobile technologies

Abstract: The paper describes a project to support personal inquiry learning with handheld and desktop technology between formal and informal settings. It presents a trial of the technology and learning across a school classroom, sports hall, and library. The main aim of the study was to incorporate inquiry learning activities within an extended school science environment in order to investigate opportunities for technological mediations and to extract initial recommendations for the design of mobile technology to link inquiry learning across different contexts. A critical incident analysis was carried out to identify learning breakdowns and breakthroughs that led to design implications. The main findings are the opportunities that a combination of mobile and fixed technology bring to: manage the formation of groups, display live visualisations of student and teacher data on a shared screen to facilitate motivation and personal relevance, incorporate broader technical support, provide context-specific guidance on the sequence, reasons and aims of learning activities, offer opportunities to micro-sites for reflection and learning in the field, to explicitly support appropriation of data within inquiry and show the relation between specific activities and the general inquiry process.

Implementing Web 2.0 in secondary schools: impacts, barriers and issues

Abstract: One of the reports from the Web 2.0 technologies for learning at KS3 and KS4 project. This report explored Impact of Web 2.0 technologies on learning and teaching and drew upon evidence from multiple sources: field studies of 27 schools across the country; guided surveys of 2,600 school students; 100 interviews and 206 online surveys conducted with managers, teachers and technical staff in these schools; online surveys of the views of 96 parents; interviews held with 18 individual innovators in the field of Web 2.0 in education; and interviews with nine regional managers responsible for implementation of ICT at national level.

Innovation in mobile learning

Abstract: Descrizione, da una prospettiva europea, dell’innovazione nel settore del mobile learning e l’utilizzabilita’ del mobile learning in contesti educativi. Vengono illustrate i principali progetti europei di m-learning e si esamina le prospettive pedagogiche e teoriche relative al campo.

Cross-Context Learning

Abstract: About the book: The biggest trend in museum exhibit design today is the creative incorporation of technology. Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Media explores the potential of mobile technologies (cell phones, digital cameras, MP3 players, PDAs) for visitor interaction and learning in museums, drawing on established practice to identify guidelines for future implementations.

E-safety and Web 2.0: Web 2.0 technologies for learning at Key Stages 3 and 4

Abstract: Becta commissioned the University of Nottingham in conjunction with London Knowledge Lab and Manchester Metropolitan University to research Web 2.0 technologies for learning at Key Stages 3 and 4. This is the fourth report from that research and concentrates on the e-safety aspects of Web 2.0 in education.

Innovazione nel mobile learning

Abstract: Description, from a European perspective, innovation in the field of mobile learning usability 'of mobile learning in educational contexts. Discusses the main European m-learning projects and examines the pedagogical and theoretical perspectives to the field.

Computer discriminationbetween diseases of the brain basedon MR image features

Abstract: In attempting to achieve a diagnosis both novice and expert radiologists tend to simplify the process by grouping contending diagnosis candidates into “small worlds” of similar appearance or similar clinical features. Comparing a current undiagnosed case with an archive of image feature descriptors of past cases also provides opportunities for discovering the roles of individual image features in discrimination. Techniques of implementing such potentially rewarding analyses require a standard language of descriptors (an image description language or IDL) that can be used consistently on an archive of cases to blindly describe them without knowledge of the final diagnoses. It is important that the radiological protocols employed should be matched between examples and new cases and that there should be sufficient numbers in the archive to provide statistically convincing data.