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Overview
Overview
Creating effective learning experiences requires thoughtful attention to designing the learning environment, understanding learner preferences, defining objectives, and selecting appropriate assessment strategies.
Below is a list of example factors to consider when designing collaborative mobile learning experiences.
Considerations
Considerations
Learner Preferences
Learner Preferences
Consider learners' social preferences, such as preferences for collaborative activities, peer interactions, and opportunities for discussion and feedback.
Understand learner needs and preferences through a learner needs assessment: Include learners' prior knowledge, learning objectives, as well as learners' beliefs and attitudes regarding mobile technologies.
(Lohman, 2024)
Content Design & Implementation
Content Design & Implementation
Platforms and formats:
Research the relative strengths and weaknesses of platforms and formats for mobile learning.
Test content on a variety of devices and ensure cross-platform compatibility.
Choose resources that can be delivered through both mobile and non-mobile platforms.
(Low et. al., 2008)
User centered designs:
Break content into smaller objects or resources to enable users to selectively download or store what they need.
Optimize designs for quick content delivery with as few operations as possible.
Select fonts for optimal readability and create graphics that are easily viewable.
Ensure compliance with accessibility standards, such as those outlined by the W3C for web accessibility.
(Low et. al., 2008)
Collaboration Tools
Collaboration Tools
Integrate social communication platforms such as Wikis, Facebook, and Twitter to encourage learners to interact and communicate (Hashim et. al., 2015).
Create shared interactive spaces to facilitate learner collaboration. Shared collaboration tools and devices, such as shared interactive augmented reality displays or tables provide learners with a shared interactive space, which can help to facilitate learner collaboration and improve learning (Simon et. al., 2022).
Measuring Success & Effectiveness
Measuring Success & Effectiveness
In designing a mobile learning experience, it can be difficult to determine how to measure the success or effectiveness of the collaboration. So how would an educator approach this?
How to identify meaningful collaboration
Establishing criteria is a critical step to measuring effectiveness. Using existing frameworks such as the Community fo Inquiry (CoI) framework from Anderson, Garrison & Archer (2001) as a guide, educators can develop their criteria of what is considered "meaningful" from the list shown here. Using aspects such as employees applying new ideas in their work or engagement with other participants can be tracked to gain deeper insights into the impact of collaboration through mobile devices.
Engagement
Engagement is often referred to as a learners commitment to participation measured by contributions to designed collaboration spaces such as discussion forums or blog posts, but it can also be specified as a term that refers to any or all of behavioral, cognitive, and/or affective domains during a learning activity. Using a model such as Bloom's Taxonomy that corresponds different levels of thinking within each domain into a hierarchical structure, this model can help in developing a rubric for what engagement may look like in a learning environment with mobile collaboration.
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