In response to Student owned devices
Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 10 May 2011 at 9:16am
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On Monday Steve Wheeler wrote a blog post on mobile and student owned devices which I thought I'd respond to here. Please read the post and comments and then come back.
In answer to your question "Should students' personal devices become a part of the delivery strategy..." without a doubt we should be considering mobile.
Other than seeing mobiles everywhere you look, obvious evidence (connections to the wifi as 1 factor) is showing high usage that is only growing. For example as I type this there are 2401 clients connected to the University of Bristol wireless network. https://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/status
It would be foolish not to consider mobile. However this is not to say that mobile must dominate the agenda.
There are many things we can do such as building mobile friendly websites and services (http://mobilecampus.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/), when using digital media use mobile friendly formats and optimising file sizes of products and resources which benefits mobile and desktop users by optimising bandwidth use.
Note that the above has yet to even touch on using mobile directly for teaching and learning yet I think these few changes can significantly reduce the barrier for staff and students. This also highlights that mobile cannot be considered in isolation as it intersects with many other topics, issues and technologies.
Contrary to Doug's opinion that we should design for the lowest capable devices I think the opposite. I think we should be taking a device agnostic approach and providing appropriate experiences for the best devices as well as the lowest. If we just did the lowest then in 10 years we would still be where we are today and that isn’t going to be a reality.
Our Session at this years Plymouth e-learning conference touched on much of this http://lanyrd.com/2011/pelc11/sdfwx/
The University of Bristol has over 8000 mobile users per week (http://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/help/wireless-survey/survey-2010/results-2010/) too many to not consider.
If you're interested in what may happen, check out Jeremy Keith’s post ‘one web’ http://adactio.com/journal/1716/
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