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=﻿ ﻿Welcome to the Group Four mobile learning seminar = This wiki has been created by Leah, Lois, Nadia and Suzie for students completing Module 3 of the 186.765 (Trends in eLearning) paper through Massey University, New Zealand. Whilst this is a public wiki which anyone can view, only invited members will be able to edit its pages or add resources. Here you will find out new and interesting information about a growing trend in elearning: mobile learning - also referred to as mlearning - and participate in activities that will allow you to critically consider how best to apply mlearning to your own educational context.


 * The purpose of this seminar is to consider whether the use of mobile learning devices extend the learners' ability to take ownership of their own learning.** We have decided on a wiki (a collaborative website that you, as course members, can all edit), rather than a standard website, so that we can embark on a discussion that leaves artefacts which we can refer to in future, long after we have moved out of Massey's Stream environment. All formal discussion about tasks, readings and activities will be carried out in the private and protected Stream environment.

Why educators need to understand mlearning
Other than participating in this seminar to pass 186.765, there are good reasons why we need to know more about this new and evolving elearning trend. If you're currently teaching or supporting learners at any level, you may already have formed an opinion of the usefulness or otherwise of mlearning. The So What page of the wiki has a couple of brief videos which illustrate the two opposing views.

Listen to a quick hello from us
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Objectives

 * 1) To agree on a common understanding of what mobile learning is and what it encompasses
 * 2) To investigate whether mobile learning necessarily guarantees better learning
 * 3)  To determine how collaboration and connection to m-learning could potentially promote learning ownership, thus enabling the learner to become the primary instigator of their learning environment
 * 4) To make a personal decision of when and how to use mlearning in your own praxis

**If you participate in all the activities, at the end of this seminar you will have:**

 * created a twitter account, sent and received tweets about this seminar (optional)
 * worked collaboratively with the group on pages within this wiki
 * provided a reference to a resource that will be useful for group members (optional)
 * created a rubric that can be used as a tool to decide when and if to use a particular mobile device in your own praxis

Getting Started
Step 1: For an overview of how to work in and find your way around this wiki, go to the How to use this wikipage Step 2: To find out what your activities are, go to the Tasks page Step 3: Join us in the [|Group 4 Seminar discussion threads]in Stream