#m4D webinar with #mobile #health projects from Malawi provided by Limbanazo Kapindula

In this short (15 min + 5 Q/A) and very illuminating webinar given by Limbanazo Kapindula who spoke straight from Malawi, Africa, we all get an idea of the impact of simple sms solutions on the health of the whole family: parents and children.
In the webinar he shows how African community health workers work around some connectivity challenges, how they solve stock problems in their rural clinics... Another interesting addition is Limbanazo's analysis of the sms's exchanged and for what purposes: health related, technical, emergencies... The simple fact that sms is used for such a variety of purposes gives an indication of its impact.
Limbanazo also looked at the impact on costs and time saved thanks to setting up the frontline sms based solution. If you want to join hands for your own project, feel free to email him at lkapindula

(at) gmail.com

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A look at 5 #mLearning theories and examples with Geoff Stead

During this week of MobiMOOC (the free, open online course on mobile learing), Geoff Stead from the Tribal lab in Cambridge, UK managed to link 5 mobile learning theories with practical mLearning examples in a 60 minute webinar.

The webinar can be viewed here. For me it gave new ideas, new inspirations to gather my own personal thoughts on pasting mLearning factors together and connecting existing projects to one or several of the frameworks mentioned.

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Amit Garg lists the factors for engaging in corporate #mLearning

This week Amit Garg from Upside Learning gave a couple of webinars on corporate mLearning. In the webinar here, he gives an overview of the factors to take into account when developing corporate mLearning: security, just-in-time, ...
This webinar is part of MobiMOOC, which is now running in its third and final week and has participants from all around the world engaging in discussions and debates on the subject of mLearning.

And here is the powerpoint that accompanied the webinar. Enjoy!

No Escaping Mobile Learning from Upside Learning

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Webinar recording on #train-the-trainer from Jacqueline Batchelor #mobimooc

During the third week of MobiMOOC, Jacqueline Batchelor focused on the challenges and benefits of creating a train-the-trainer set up for teachers/tutors/trainers to use a mobile phone at the center of their training and teaching.

The powerpoint of the presentation can be found here, and the youtube or audio presentation is also embedded more below.

Train the trainer from Jacqueline Batchelor

It is a great seminar, combining theory with practical implementations from her South-African context.

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Recapturing #aufgs2012 Athabasca University's Graduate student conference

Last weekend I had a wonderful and enlightening time in Edmonton, Canada. It was the first time I met several of my online friends and ... during the conference I got to meet people that really made me feel part of a community, the Athabasca University community.The wonderful thing about this gathering was the high quality research that was shared, and at the same time the feeling of being embraced in the community. The conference was small enough to allow real contact to happen. A great combination.

Who did I meet, and why did they make a difference?
During my master I had many, many really inspiring professors and teachers, one of which was Terry Anderson. Terry connects with people, he is on a mission to make technology part of the human social life and his Athabasca landing is a wonderful platform. He also always keeps me focused and on my tows, which is a good thing in academic life.  
Stella Lee is a wonderful person. We met in 2007 during a mobile conference in Fredericton, Canada. She was passionate and brought her presentation with a lot of humor. Afterwards we decided to go and sit on a bench on the sidewalk of a busy street and give people compliments just to make their day... it was fun! In the last few years we have lived and got some changes in our lives, so it was a blast to catch up again. Too short though.
It was Stella who introduced me to Vive(k) Kumar and Ireti Fakinlede. Vive(k), or V, is an intriguing person. He has an air of complete energy over him and I gave him one extra grey hair by asking him to go outside of his wonderfully build online/offline presentation set-up. He did it, so I was very grateful.
And I had the most wonderful discussion with Ireti on social agents, languages and a vibrant Swahili dictum.
I also met Caroline Park, who I have mailed frequently on mobile topics in the past and all of a sudden here she was in full glory, organizing part of the conference. Tony Ratcliffe allowed me one dance, which was really nice. And last but not least, I had the chance to meet with Leslie Lindballe who single handedly got everyone engaged in making music. She also opened up my mind when she talked about her thougths when getting research grant: either work and study or go and live somewhere cheaper and study, while having time to make music due to the cheaper rent. I loved that remark! Fabulous. Leslie combines ratio with heart and ... that seeps into her learning and teaching as well. Just look at her wonderful on learning video.

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John Traxler with questions on the global impact of #mobile devices #mobimooc

Yesterday was again an enlightening day at MobiMOOC. 
The webinar on the global impact of mobile devices was given by John Traxler, focusing on some of the ethical and philosopical issues surrounding the global impact of using mobile devices that are manufactured in the North and bring the Northern pedagogy to all regions of the world.

This webinar is part of the MobiMOOC 2012 free, open, online course on mobile learning (http://mobimooc.wikispaces.com)
You can see the recording of the webinar, with questions and answers from participants here
http://youtu.be/6GP56KF2pX0
For those on mobile
http://m.youtube.com/6GP56KF2pX0

Some of you have requested some additional information.
John has listed the main ideas in the course wikipage:
https://mobimooc.wikispaces.com/Global+impact+of+mobile+devices

And here are two blogposts with some comments:
http://mobileesl.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/john-traxler-mobile-learning-and.html
http://ignatiawebs.blogspot.be/2012/08/join-mobimooc-for-ethical-debate-on.html

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Illuminating webinar by Adele Botha on #mobile learning with examples, pointers and theory #mobimooc

This webinar shows a live presentation that was given by Adele Botha. In this live webinar recording, Adele shares multiple mobile projects from South Africa. She also gives us a potential framework to view mobile projects with, varying from low mobility in a low context, to a high mobility in a high context. In addition she also talks about a wonderful informal way of giving accredition: the earn-as-you-learn principle. And to finalize the webinar she offers an overview of the Mobile Learning Curriculum Framework, to which she launches an appeal for people to join into the discussion.

Join the discussion in the free discussion group:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/mobimooc-curriculum
Or look at the content of the Mobile Learning Curriculum Framework here:
http://mobimooc.wikispaces.com/Mobile+Learning+Curriculum+Framework 

This recorded webinar is part of the MobiMOOC 2012 course. A free, open, online course on mobile learning. We are now in the second week of MobiMOOC and you are free to join any specialized topic that you might be interested in. How? Simply choose the topic and become member of that specific group. An overview of the topics and their consecutive discussion groups can be found here.

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