How would YOU design for mobile learning?

Introduction

Dear Colleague,

Mobile learning is still in its infancy: new in research and rare in school practice. This questionnaire, addressed to selected colleagues, practitioners of ICT for Education, is part of a research aiming to help raise and discuss issues around the design of m-learning activities, tools or environments.

The results of this questionnaire will be used solely for research purposes related to the participatory design of an online mobile learning system that adapts its behavior according to certain parameters related to the teaching-learning process. Consequently, the main goal of this online survey is to answer ‘how would YOU design for mobile learning?’, as a computer literate tutor or as an instructional designer.

Your participation in this study is completely voluntary and any information you provide will be kept confidential. Although the data from this research study will be published and presented at conferences, it will be reported in aggregate form, so that it will not be possible to identify individuals. Should there be any direct quotations coming from participants’ responses, all identifying information will be removed.

ALL questions are marked as optional, so that you can skip a question that you are not comfortable with. Participating in this study should take no more than 20 minutes of your time.

Please feel free to contact the researchers prior to beginning the study should you have any question.

Researcher 1

Name: Thanasis Hadzilacos

Email: thh@ouc.ac.cy

Tel: +35722411962

Website: http://www.ouc.ac.cy/web/guest/s2/programme/pliepik/personnel

Researcher 2
Name: Anna Mavroudi
Email: anna.mavroudi@st.ouc.ac.cy
Tel: +35722411967
Website: http://ouc.academia.edu/annamavroudi

If you agree with the above privacy rules please provide your name and email address.

Name/Surname *This question is required.

Your email address: *This question is required. This question requires a valid email address.

1. I have a good pedagogical background.

Extremely good	Very good	Moderately good	Slightly good	Not good at all	Not Applicable

2. I have a good ICT background.

Extremely good	Very good	Moderately good	Slightly good	Not good at all	Not Applicable

3. I find most e-learning systems that I have used techno-centric

4. I find most e-learning systems that I have used learner-centered

5. It is difficult to fully exploit the functionality of an e-learning system or tool without having fairly good knowledge in ICT.

6. I vary or adapt my teaching practices according to

Prior knowledge of my students
Learning style of my students (for example, auditory Vs visual)
Learning strategy I want to use (for example, inquiry-based learning, social learning etc)
Time availability
Learning objectives

Other?

(Please suggest)

7. How do you integrate e-learning in your lessons?

8. What is mobile learning?

Learning with the use of mobile devices
Learning "everywhere, anytime"
Learning across contexts (school, library, museum, lab, zoo, field etc)
Learning on the move

(If you have another definition to propose, please describe)

Other?

9. (If you have practiced mobile learning with your students or if you have designed and/or developed activities for mobile learning, please describe) How do you integrate mobile learning in your lessons?

(If you have practiced mobile learning with your students, please describe)

10. What is special in mobile learning compared to 'traditional' desktop e-learning? Do you think it may promote new ways of learning?

11. Having answered the questions above, please answer 'how would YOU design for mobile learning?' Or, do you have in mind certain parameters that would determine your design?

12. Anything else you would like to share?

13. Would you like to be informed about the research results?

14. Country of residence:

15. Can the researcher contact you for a short interview?

How would YOU design for mobile learning?

Page One