Mimas: Tellling Tales – Mobile Learning Event

I recently presented at the Mimas: Telling Tales – Mobile Learning event at The University of Westminster in London. Mimas is a national data centre based at The University of Manchester. They decamped to London for the day and hosted a great forum on Mobile Learning. Lorraine Estelle from JISC Collections gave the opening  and closing remarks and Dr Jackie Carter from Mimas convened the day.

It was a really interesting day with a number of speakers from the world of Mobile Learning including:

• Graham Brown-Martin (Learning without Frontiers)
• John Traxler (Applied Innovative Digital Technologies Research Group)
• Geoff Butters (Manchester Metropolitan University)
• Hilary Smith (University of Sussex)
• Simon Ball (Tech-Dis)
• Gary Priestnall (School of Geography, University of Nottingham)
• John Cook (London Metropolitan University)
• James Clay (Gloucestershire College)
• and myself, Stuart Smith (3 Sheep

My presentation “Changing Gears” considered my applied research into the design and development of a Mobile Learning platform for Mimas at The University of Manchester. The research is used in a real learning system for hairdressing students and has supplied content to both MoleNet projects. The techniques have help in the formation of 3 Sheep and the system was recognised with an International Innovation Award at Handheld Learning last year.

You can try out a demo version of the mobile platform by pointing your  mobile browser at http://htmob.mobi/demo. 3 Sheep are also now delivering training in “Creating Mobile Websites for Education”, please use the enquiry form to find out more.

Below are my presentation slides from the events.