Here are some takeaway ideas from the Mobile Learning in Higher Education Conference:
- When students embrace new consumer technologies, they do it with breathtaking speed; it quickly becomes part of their everyday life. They're driving the technology infrastructure of the institution forward and with it new opportunities to teach. Are we playing catch-up while kicking and screaming or with creative reflection and engagement?
- Educational goals and outcomes become animated (and anecdotally - but data is forthcoming - quality and experience is dramatically improved).
- New services will live or die based on the presence and quality of support after the pilot study is over.
- Mobile technology excels at performance enhancement and location-based learning. Not comparable to current technology, it EXCELS.
- There is a disturbing trend toward optimizing displayed data for different devices. Apparently, some have forgotten what it was like to code for the 4.x browsers. (I spoke up for standards, separation of data and presentation.)
- There was thoughtful support for transcoding uniform data formats for optimal display.
- Croquet virtual machine rocks.
There are many awesome, thoughtful people with clear visions attending. A priveledge to be here.
