VLEs: Straight Jackets or Lego?

What ever the age what ever the technology what ever the age its no less advanced just different

E books and E book reader format wars

Future of the book forward looking

http://vimeo.com/15142335

The world has changed

Mobile phone companies more trusted than banks. Mobile phone companies may become banks M passa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TapwpN31jtY

M-Pesa, the Kenyan branchless banking system undoubtedly stole the headlines, judging by the Tweets and ReTweets and is a very African success story. Not only is it now the biggest bank in the world with 8 million customers, but annual money transfers are now equivalent to 20 – 25% of Kenya’s total GDP, depending on who you believe has the most up-to-date facts. Many banks will clearly try to replicate this and probably most will fail, but it does paint a great picturehttp://mobhappy.com/blog1/2010/10/01/crowd-sourcing-by-mocality/

The Growth of Mobile

International telecoms unit http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?

key=tUzZsw5SoG_jXRDl6p8tRCg&single=true&gid=0&output=html

Google spreadsheet of International Telecoms Union (ITU) data on mobile phone penetration for all countries from 1998-2008

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A technology when invented

thought to have no practical and

especially no commercial use

• “We sat there discussing the route taken by a text message from a mobile through the paging system. Juhani had brought a programmable calculator with him. We realized that the numerical keypad could also be used for letters. Then it struck us that the paging system was not needed, it was just a detour. There was nothing to stop the mobile phone itself from receiving a text message.”

What do you use your phone for ?

What d

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/u-s-teen-mobile-report-calling-yesterday-texting-today-using-apps-tomorrow/ 14/10/2010

• When most everyone shouts, few listen. How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it's an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can't tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.

Examples of getting it wrong •Every town will need a telephone •The world will only need 5 or 6 computers •SMS will never catch on •The internet is a new idea of a network (Learn from the telegraph in the US in the 1890 )

ICT in FE 2006 Its not the things you predict its the things

you miss that matter

The technology connectivity inverted pyramid

Actually multiple pyramids

Mobile Learning or Learner Mobility

Complicated APPS for smart phones campus info

Mobile access to institutional services

Molly Project (Mobile Oxford)

Tribal MIS systems (70% of UK Higher Ed)

The future answer for rich content across devices is the browser (I might be wrong )

The solutions for now • Apps (native)• Downloading/preloading content • Top rate instructional design• Simple but clever . Complicated and clever

road to disaster • Robust delivery platforms for and in the future

(you choose ?)

Thanks for listening