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Mobile Moodle A mobile extension to the VLE

Mobile Moodle A mobile extension to the VLE. Supriya Krishnan, Narain Ramluchmun , Chara Balasubramaniam , Terry Poulton St George’s, University of London. Background. Mobile learning and the changes in mobile technology

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Mobile Moodle A mobile extension to the VLE

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  1. Mobile MoodleA mobile extension to the VLE Supriya Krishnan, NarainRamluchmun, CharaBalasubramaniam, Terry Poulton St George’s, University of London

  2. Background • Mobile learning and the changes in mobile technology • Media players, game devices, wireless single purpose devices in learning • Factors to be considered for mobile learning in HE and FE institutions

  3. Aims Explore how students at SGUL use mobiles for learning Integrate mobile learning to existing VLE at St George’s 3. Decide whether to focus on m-learning St George’s Mobile Project

  4. An online survey was created in SurveyMonkey Completed by students of MBBS, Paramedics, Physiotherapy, Biomed etc Survey was divided into 5 sections: 1. Introduction 2. Personal Information 3. Phone Characteristics 4. Phone Use 5. Phone Use in Learning The Mobile Learning Survey

  5. Survey Summary • 714 medical and healthcare students across all the different years completed the survey • 424 were females 290 were males, with an average age of 21

  6. “Please use the dropdown list below to select your mobile phone brand” 25.5% owned a Nokia mobile phone Apple took fourth place !!

  7. “Choose 5 most important purposes of your mobile phone” 43.1% 34% 40.2%

  8. How many m-Learning applications/websites did you access last month? Almost 50% of the students have accessed at least one m-Learning application/website last month 48% have planned on using their mobiles to watch educational videos

  9. Survey Analysis • Around 200 favourable written comments were received, a couple of these were : “ I find recorded lectures/podcasts extremely useful, and making them mobile even more so. I already access medical lectures, anatomy videos etc via my phone.” “I think m-Learning is a good idea, I don't really know that much about it but podcasts and quizzes etc would be really useful for those times when you're waiting/ have nothing to do but would like to do a bit of quick revision. At the moment I carry quiz books etc around which are quite bulky.” • Overall, it was found that most of the students supported ‘m-Learning at St George’s

  10. The requirements: An open source project Technically customisable Easy to implement Simple to use and manage MM satisfied all the requirements and has been implemented according to the guidelines Mobile Moodle (MM) - Identified & Implemented

  11. MM Browser Customisation • Access Link • Categorisationbased on Moodle • Personalised Login • Back navigation • Removed unwanted links andcategories

  12. How is Moodle content transferred to mobile phones? Moodle Quiz on desktop Moodle Quiz on MM

  13. MM Evaluation The Usability Testing Test was carried out with 20 users (staff and students) Completed some typical tasks in MM An expert user was created The average of time taken to complete the tasks by first time users was then compared to that of expert user

  14. Test Results

  15. Device cost Accessibility Storage Data Security Challenges

  16. Mobile Learning at St George’s – What's next?

  17. Thank You!

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