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International Mobile Learning Festival:
Mobile Learning, MOOCs and
21st Century Learning
Pre-conference Workshops of the International Mobile
Learning Festival, 21st of May, 2015, Hong Kong
Pre-conference
Workshops
Supporting organizations
Faculty of
Education
The University of Hong Kong
COMMONCORE
Exploring Issues of Profound Significance to Humankind
MOBILE LEARNING FRT
Faculty of
Education
International Mobile Learning Festival 2015
21st to 23rd of May, 2015, Hong Kong, SAR China
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION TO THE PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP SERIES
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WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
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WORKSHOP ABSTRACTS
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WORKSHOP 1 -- TECHNOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY OF ICLASS INTERACTIVE MOBILE LEARNING
PLATFORM AND MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT (MDM)
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WORKSHOP 2 -- LEARNING UNLEASHED: MOOCS, BOOCS, AND GENERAL EDUCATION
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WORKSHOP 3 -- TEACHING FOR SUCCESS IN THE 21 CENTURY
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WORKSHOP 4 -- ENABLE YOUR STUDENTS WITH THEIR MOBILE DEVICES FOR INTERACTIVE AND
UBIQUITOUS LEARNING AND ASSESS STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
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WORKSHOP 5 -- DEVELOPING A MOBILE LEARNING TOOLKIT FOR TEACHERS AND TEACHER
EDUCATORS
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WORKSHOP 6 -- MOOCS IN THE ARAB REGION – BEST PRACTICES AND LESSONS LEARNED
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A SPECIAL WORKSHOP OF THE IMLF2015: MOBILE TECHNOLOGY IN EARLY
CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
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ABOUT THE SPECIAL WORKSHOP
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SPECIAL WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
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SPECIAL WORKSHOP ABSTRACTS
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Innovative use of tablet technology: Enrich integrative learning in kindergartens
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Apps in Pre-School Education
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Introduction to the Pre-conference Workshop Series
The Programme Committee of the IMLF2015 is pleased to offer the following set of preconference workshops to be held on the 21st of May at the University of Hong Kong. The
workshop participation is FREE of charge for the registered participants of the main
IMLF2015 conference and academic staff at the University of Hong Kong. Others are
required to pay registration fees of US$100 for the whole day of workshops.
Places are limited, so please, register early at the following site:
http://www.jotform.me/zvezdan/IMLFWorkshop
Workshops will be held at the lecture theaters T4 and T5, Meng Wah Complex, The
University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.
For directions, see the HKU maps at http://www.maps.hku.hk/
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Workshop Programme
Time
Theater T4
Theater T5
8:30-9:00
Registration
9:00-10:30
Technology and Pedagogy of iClass
interactive mobile learning platform and
Mobile Device Management (MDM)
A Special Workshop of the IMLF2015 -Mobile Technology in Early Childhood
Education
Prof Wilton Fok, Director
Ms Maomao Wu, Curriculum Officer
Mr Eric Au Yeung, Project Manager
Mr Karl Cheung, Education Consultant
e-Learning Development Lab, The University
of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China
Welcome address
Dr Daniel Churchill, IMLF2015 Chair
Changing the paradigm, changing the
system: more justice in preschool education
Professor Wassilios Fthenakis, University of
Bremen, Germany
Innovative use of tablet technology: Enrich
integrative learning in kindergartens
Dr Christina Han, Hong Kong Institute of
Education, Hong Kong, SAR China
10:30-11:00
11:00-12:30
Coffee Break
Learning Unleashed: MOOCs, BOOCs,
and General Education
Professor Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, and
Director of The Common Core
Professor Gina Marchetti, Comparative
Literature & Film Studies, MOOC Designer
and Teacher
Mr Pashur Au-Yeung, MOOC MultiMedia
Producer
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
SAR China
12:30-14:00
14:00-15:30
Enable your students with their mobile
devices for interactive and ubiquitous
learning and assess student engagement
15:30-16:00
Dr Khoo Kay Yong, MELS, E-Learn Dot Com,
Hong Kong, SAR China
Teaching for Success in the 21st Century
Prof. Spencer Benson, Director Centre for
Teaching and Learning Enhancement,
University of Macau, Macau, SAR China
Coffee Break
Developing a mobile learning toolkit for
teachers and teacher educators
MOOCs in the Arab Region – Best Practices
and Lessons Learned
Prof Kevin Burden, Reader, Faculty of
Education, the University of Hull,
UK
Dr Sana’a Al Quddoumi, Jordanian, the
Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai
Women’s College. Dubai, UAE
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Apps in Pre-School Education
Lunch Break
Dr Warren Linger, Lecturer, Hong Kong
Baptist University, Hong Kong, SAR China
16:00-17:30
A Special Workshop of the IMLF2015 -Mobile Technology in Early Childhood
Education
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21st to 23rd of May, 2015, Hong Kong, SAR China
Workshop Abstracts
Workshop 1 -- Technology and Pedagogy of iClass interactive mobile learning
platform and Mobile Device Management (MDM)
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Dr Wilton Fok, Director
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Ms Maomao Wu, Curriculum Officer
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Mr Eric Au Yeung, Project Manager
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Mr Karl Cheung, Education Consultant
e-Learning Development Lab, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China
This workshop will train participants how to use an interactive mobile learning platform and
Mobile Device Management (MDM) called iClass developed at the University of Hong Kong.
Such systems could facilitate real-time interactive class discussion through drawing,
keywords, e-book and multimedia via a cloud network. The MDM solution can provide a full
control for teacher to monitor and control the tablet PCs and mobile devices in a class so that
the devices could be directed to any particular apps or activities, or disable from certain
function, or centralised management of apps installation or deletion. These solutions are
deployed in schools and universities in HK, mainland China and Singapore.
Workshop 2 -- Learning Unleashed: MOOCs, BOOCs, and General Education
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Professor Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, and Director of The Common Core
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Professor Gina Marchetti, Comparative Literature & Film Studies, MOOC Designer
and Teacher
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Mr Pashur Au-Yeung, MOOC MultiMedia Producer
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China
The Common Core at the University of Hong Kong, which started with the city-wide
education reform in 2012, is the required interdisciplinary general education curriculum for
all of our undergraduates. The Core encourages a range of interactive pedagogies and is now
partnering with others on campus to create a set of blended open online courses (BOOC) for
our students, based on the University’s entry into the world of MOOCs in 2014.
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Since we are in the design stage of this project, we thought it would be valuable to share
findings, challenges, and aspirations with participants, as well as to collaborate with one
another to create a prototype of a course that students would find irresistible.
The 1.5 hour workshop would have four parts:
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Introductions
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The Ecology of Learning: MOOCs, the Common Core, and infrastructure at HKU and
at the participants’ universities
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Designing for the Future: A Prototype Course
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Synthesis and Follow-Up
Workshop 3 -- Teaching for Success in the 21st Century
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Prof. Spencer Benson, Director Centre for Teaching and Learning Enhancement,
University of Macau, Macau, SAR China
What does it mean to teach for success? Modern higher education serves many purposes; so
how do we measure success. This workshop will focus on what defines success in the current
21st century higher education landscape. Through presentation and conversations we will
focus on key issues and strategies that focus on important questions such as: What does it
mean to teaching for success? Who’s success; the teacher, the student, the institution? What
defines success in the 21st century? What are we teaching/learning that contributes to present
and future successes? What are the essential skills all students need to be successful in a
changing global world? Is student success the goal for teaching and learning? How one
designs pedagogy approaches for teaching for success? What are the roles for existing and
emerging technology in higher education teaching and learning. Participants will be asked to
think about these questions and provide insights, opinions and answers. A variety of handson minds-on pedagogical and presentation techniques will be used as participants are asked to
actively engage in developing answers to the above questions.
Objectives
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An increasing understanding of what educational success means,
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An increasing understanding of what essential 21st Century Skills are,
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Thoughtful reflection on the nature, purpose the use of technologies for enhancing
teaching and learning,
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Thoughtful reflection on the nature and purpose of one’s own teaching
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Workshop 4 -- Enable your students with their mobile devices for interactive and
ubiquitous learning and assess student engagement
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Dr Warren Linger, Lecturer, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, SAR China
The marketing concept of Simultaneous Media or the “second screen” was adapted to enable
students use their mobile devices as their own ‘second screens’ to collaborate with classmates,
search topics and ideas on the internet, and submit findings in real-time in the classroom.
Using simple tools, it is possible to give students instant (often automatic) feedback in class
and during ubiquitous learning.
Tools will be shared to help instructors give students instant, real-time feedback to in-class
surveys and worksheets. By implementing a few activity debrief tools adapted from the
Experience Sampling Method (Hektner, Schmidt, & Csikszentmihalyi, 2007), it is possible to
gather information on real-time engagement, liking, challenge, etc., from each class/teaching
and learning activity throughout course of the semester. By the end of this workshop
attendees will be able to implement their own ‘second screen’ tools, to enable interactive
classrooms and ubiquitous learning and assess real-time student engagement.
Workshop 5 -- Developing a mobile learning toolkit for teachers and teacher
educators
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Prof Kevin Burden, Reader, the University of Hull, UK
In the endlessly changing landscape which pervades education, mobile technologies have
been described as ‘boundary’ objects which enable teachers and learners to transcend many
of the barriers such as space and time which have hitherto characterised traditional forms of
education. If such boundless learning is to become commonplace, however, educators need to
better understand how to design learning scenarios which genuinely exploit the unique
affordances of mobile technologies rather than replicating existing patterns and modes of
behaviour. The leaders of this workshop have recently been awarded a substantial grant from
the European Union to develop a mobile toolkit for teachers to realise this vision. The
workshop will explore with participants a variety of different tools and instruments which are
being developed as part of the wider toolkit. Using a selection of interactive activities and
mobile devices the workshop will focus on the development of a digital survey instrument for
educators and their students which will eventually provide a detailed summary at both the
individual and institutional level about how mobile technology is currently being used and
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how this might be developed in the future. Participants will have an opportunity to use the
proto-survey tool and will be encouraged to become part of a wider user-testing group which
will have access to the full toolkit during and after its development. The workshop will
include a range of different activities and will draw upon participants own experiences and
observations in using mobile technologies in an educational contexts. Participants should
bring along any examples of how they have previously used mobile technologies with
learners and should also be prepared to engage in discussion and sharing of experiences.
Workshop 6 -- MOOCs in the Arab Region – Best Practices and Lessons Learned
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Dr Sana’a Al Quddoumi, Jordanian, the Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai
Women’s College, Dubai, UAE
MOOCs are currently presenting a new learning trend for learners in the Middle East as it’s
happening in many other countries around the globe.
In March 2014, Ms. Sharifa Hajjat; the E-Learning Coordinator at Dubai colleges, Higher
Colleges of Technology has run the 1st MOOC in Arabic language, targeting Arabic learners.
The MOOC topics were (Managing & Facilitating Virtual Classrooms). This MOOC was a
blend of providing online course materials and live synchronous online sessions in order to
bring a high level of interactivity as a strategy to increase the retention rate which is globally
known as one of challenges when running a MOOC. Participants of this workshop will be
able to:
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Understand how MOOCs work
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Evaluate and understand learners’ needs
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Define strategies for course delivery and modules pace
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Evaluate and adopt platform/ technology
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Define and implement strategies to engage learners in a MOOC
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Learn best practices of managing and facilitating MOOCs
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A Special Workshop of the IMLF2015: Mobile Technology in
Early Childhood Education
Thursday, 21st of May, 9:00 to 12:30, T5, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong
Kong, Pokfulam
About the Special Workshop
Due to the demand and the need for discussion to widen and include ideas for integration of
mobile technology in early childhood education, the Programme Committee of the
IMLF2015 is pleased to include this workshop in the agenda. Continuously increasing visual
and interactive powers of emerging mobile technologies create a spectrum of opportunities
for development of critical abilities, skills, literacies, dispositions and knowledge for young
children, that can prepare them with essentials to enter former schooling and life. Inclusion of
mobile technologies in early childhood education will make overall education more relevant
to the contemporary society where technologies play major role in all aspects of human
endeavors.
The Workshop will examine a set of theoretical and practical issues related to integration of
mobile technologies in early childhood education. A set of relevant theoretical perspectives
will be presented together with strategies for effective integration, as well as, for design of
mobile learning content. The Workshop will integrate perspectives of
theoreticians/researchers, early childhood education practitioners and industry partners.
Special Workshop Programme
8:30-9:00
Registraiton
9:00-9:05
Welcome address by Dr Daniel Churchill, Chair, IMLF2015
9:05-9:20
Changing the paradigm, changing the system: more justice in preschool education
Professor Wassilios Fthenakis, University of Bremen, Germany (short presentation via
Skype to emphasizing needs for reforms of childhood education for todays).
9:20-10:30
Innovative use of tablet technology: Enrich integrative learning in kindergartens
Dr Christina Han, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, SAR China
10:30-11:00
Break
11:50-12:30
Apps in Pre-School Education
Dr Khoo Kay Yong, MELS, E-Learn Dot Com, Hong Kong, SAR China
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Special Workshop Abstracts
Innovative use of tablet technology: Enrich integrative learning in kindergartens
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Dr Christina Han, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, SAR China
Innovative use of tablet technologies has potential enhance and enrich young children's
learning. Integrative learning approach is to encourage young children to make use of both,
digital and non-digital learning materials to make meaning through their learning processes.
In this session, the presenter will share how teachers use tablet technologies in a kindergarten
to explore scientific experiments, and how to integrate various activities to enrich learning
with support of this technology. In addition to above, the participants will try out some
cutting edge tablet technologies for young children, and have better idea of how young
children visualize concepts through learning with mobile technologies.
Apps in Pre-School Education
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Dr Khoo Kay Yong, MELS E-learn Dot Com, Hong Kong, SAR China
MELS digital learning apps for preschools to provide stories designed to lead children to
encounter the application of knowledge in different contexts. The current session will
introduce three core areas of focus in MELS digital learning apps: mathematics, phonics, and
science.
The apps function as practical aids in kindergarten classroom teaching. Teachers can use
mobile devices to wirelessly broadcast the program on a display unit (e.g. a TV, LCD
projector etc.). The children can also use the apps on mobile devices and see the outcomes of
their interactions on the display unit. Interactions using these apps facilitate the users
externalizing their understanding and internalizing new knowledge. Parents can use their own
mobile device to follow the progress of their children’s.
In a typical classroom, having students work in groups does not automatically initiate
collaboration. In this MELS digital learning environment, children are motivated to
autonomous engagement in a teaching and learning activity, which is particularly important
because such engagement functions as a behavioural pathway to their subsequent learning
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and development. The apps afford instant responses in multimodal texts to initiate
autonomous collaborative engagements such as discussions, mutual explanations and
elaboration are often suggested as means to assist children to improve their understanding.
The MELS teaching apps illuminate existing learning practices (in mathematics, Phonics &
Science) from a new perspective of learning. A central concern of this new perspective is the
ways in which children artfully engage with their peers and surroundings to create impromptu
sites of learning.
© 2015, CIHCD
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