Everyday patterns in lifelong learners to build personal learning ecologies

Tabuenca, B., Ternier, S., & Specht, M. (2012). Everyday patterns in lifelong learners to build personal learning ecologies. In M. Specht, J. Multisilta, & M. Sharples (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning 2012 (pp. 86-93). October, 16-18, 2012, Helsinki, Finland.This article presents the results from a questionnaire filled out by 147 lifelong learners. The primary aim of the questionnaire is to analyse learning practices of adults, and to recognize patterns of lifelong learners in order to support them with technology. These patterns capture the context in which lifelong learners are more willing to learn, that is, the day of the week, duration, location, activity being performed, type of device being used, way to interact with their devices and how these aspects can affect when an adult student takes the initiative to learn. Moreover, this article examines previous publications on surveys, questionnaires and information collected with the same objective, to corroborate and contrast the findings. The contribution of this paper is identifying and describing patterns in which lifelong learners are more willing to build personal learning ecologies when supported by mobile devices.Open University of The Netherlands, CELSTEC, NELL

mOER: Mobile Open Educational Resources

Tabuenca, B. (2013, 18 April). mOER: Mobile Open Educational Resources. Presentation at 7th OER Atelier organised by the UNESCO Chair on OER, Heerlen, The Netherlands. UNESCO, Open UniversiteitThe 7th OER Atelier is organised by the UNESCO Chair on OER. This presentation addresses the relevance and upcoming application of mobile Open Educational Resources. Moreover, trends related to the creation, publication, discovery, acquisition, access, use and re-use of mobile OER are discussed. Important issues as the added value of future of mobile support from repository owners are presented.UNESCO, Open Universitei

OER in the Mobile Era: Content Repositories’ Features for Mobile Devices and Future Trends

Learning objects and open contents have been named in the Horizon reports from 2004 and 2010 respectively, predicting to have an impact in the short term due to the current trend of offering open content for free on the Web. OER repositories should adapt their features so their contents can be accessed from mobile devices. This paper summarizes recent trends in the creation, publication, discovery, acquisition, access, use and re-use of learning objects on mobile devices based on a literature review on research done from 2007 to 2012. From the content providers side, we present the results obtained from a survey performed on 23 educational repository owners prompting them to an- swer about their current and expected support on mobile devices. From the content user side, we identify features provided by the main OER repositories. Finally, we intro- duce future trends and our next contribution

Patrones cotidianos en estudiantes de formación continua para la creación de ecologías de aprendizaje

This article presents the results from a questionnaire filled out by 147 lifelong learners. The primary aim of the questionnaire is to analyse learning practices of adults, and to recognize patterns of lifelong learners in order to support them with technology. These patterns capture the context in which lifelong learners are more willing to learn, that is, the day of the week, duration, location, activity being performed, type of device being used, way to interact with their devices and how these aspects can affect when an adult student takes the initiative to learn. Moreover, this article examines previous publications on surveys, questionnaires and information collected with the same objective, to corroborate and contrast the findings. The contribution of this paper is identifying and describing patterns in which lifelong learners are more willing to build personal learning ecologies when supported by mobile devices.Este artículo presenta los resultados de una encuesta completada por 147 estudiantes de formación continua. El principal objetivo del cuestionario es analizar las prácticas de aprendizaje en adultos y reconocer patrones de estudiantes de formación continua con el fin de darles soporte con tecnología. Estos patrones capturan el contexto en el cual los participantes están más predispuestos a aprender, es decir, el momento del día, el día de la semana, duración, ubicación, actividad que se realiza, tipo de dispositivo utilizado, forma de interactuar con sus dispositivos y cómo pueden afectar estos aspectos cuando un estudiante adulto toma la iniciativa de aprender. Además, este artículo examina las publicaciones en encuestas anteriores, cuestionarios y la información recogida con el mismo objetivo, para corroborar y contrastar los resultados. La contribución de este trabajo es identificar y describir patrones en los que los estudiantes de formación continua están más dispuestos a construir ecologías de aprendizaje personal cuando con el soporte de dispositivos móviles

Everyday Patterns in Lifelong Learners to Build Personal Learning Ecologies

Este artículo presenta los resultados de una encuesta completada por 147 estudiantes de formación continua. El principal objetivo del cuestionario es analizar las prácticas de aprendizaje en adultos y reconocer patrones de estudiantes de formación continua con el fin de darles soporte con tecnología. Estos patrones capturan el contexto en el cual los participantes están más predispuestos a aprender, es decir, el momento del día, el día de la semana, duración, ubicación, actividad que se realiza, tipo de dispositivo utilizado, forma de interactuar con sus dispositivos y cómo pueden afectar estos aspectos cuando un estudiante adulto toma la iniciativa de aprender. Además, este artículo examina las publicaciones en encuestas anteriores, cuestionarios y la información recogida con el mismo objetivo, para corroborar y contrastar los resultados. La contribución de este trabajo es identificar y describir patrones en los que los estudiantes de formación continua están más dispuestos a construir ecologías de aprendizaje personal cuando con el soporte de dispositivos móviles.This article presents the results from a questionnaire filled out by 147 lifelong learners. The primary aim of the questionnaire is to analyse learning practices of adults, and to recognize patterns of lifelong learners in order to support them with technology. These patterns capture the context in which lifelong learners are more willing to learn, that is, the day of the week, duration, location, activity being performed, type of device being used, way to interact with their devices and how these aspects can affect when an adult student takes the initiative to learn. Moreover, this article examines previous publications on surveys, questionnaires and information collected with the same objective, to corroborate and contrast the findings. The contribution of this paper is identifying and describing patterns in which lifelong learners are more willing to build personal learning ecologies when supported by mobile devices

Ubiquitous Technology for Lifelong Learners

Nowadays, most people change their career throughout their lives, many times independently on what they learned during their formal education period. Therefore, the necessity to continually keep our skills sharp and up-to-date becomes increasingly important in a rapidly changing job market. The European Commission stressed the importance of lifelong learning as a key challenge for the knowledge society to adapt to the pace in which digital technology is transforming every aspect of people’s lives. Later on, the Commission published a reference framework comprising eight competences to flexibly adapt to a rapidly changing and highly interconnected world. In this thesis, we aim at supporting learners to understand the way they can better learn in-context using technology, therefore we focus on two specific competences, namely, learning to learn and digital competence