This book contains free resources to incorporate into your online courses – they are snippets primarily focused around the writing process, but also include many prompts for writing having to do with leadership, literature, and travel/discovery. All are in available for free via YouTube, and are designed to be easily embedded or linked to. They also contain notes and suggestions for use.
Effective Mobile Learning: The three cornerstones of effective mobile learning are authenticity, collaboration, and personalization.
One great way to build in the authenticity is to include video snippets that trigger thoughts and give guidance. Snippets that have to do with writing can nicely tie to the learner’s individual needs, and encourage collaboration, or at least a conversation.
The video snippets are actually learning objects, and they are sufficiently granular to be used in many places in a single course. They are also ideal for micro-learning (or chunked learning).
Advantages of video content: Here is a brief list of some of the advantages of video snippets:
• Snippets that are brief capture and keep the learner's attention
• A video with a person in a natural setting is engaging, humanizing
• Video appeals to audio as well as visual learners
• The personal delivery of the presenter triggers thought and internal “conversation”
• The format builds in a call for action by encouraging "check your knowledge" kinds of reflection
• The informality creates a relatable experience
• The snippets, when stored in the cloud and downloadable to one's smartphone, tablet, or laptop, are highly accessible
• Perfect for smartphone or tablet access
Mobile learning can be extremely effective, but all too often, it’s just a series of monotonous narrated PowerPoints, with multiple choice quizzes along the way and at the end.
This collection, with all its spontaneity and unusual venues, can be incorporated directly, or inspire instructors and students to create their own snippets and use them within their m-learning courses.
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For those wishing a printed copy, a paper copy of Video-Assisted Mobile Learning is available on demand.
