Spring 2015 LDT
696 (Campus; CES)
Instructor: Minjuan Wang, Ph.D.
Class Meeting Time & Place: 1900-2100 (Mondays), Storm Hall 204
Office: PSFA 315 (619-594-3878)
E-mail: mwang@mail.sdsu.edu
Office Hours: Arranged
Course Prerequisites: LDT 540, 541, 544
Course Overview
EDTEC 696/630 (Mobile Application Development for Learning): This course is designed to provide an
overview of recent and near-future developments in the realm of mobile learning. You'll read about new
technologies, implementation and policy issues, and platforms and methods for creating mobile learning
environments and courses. You'll exit the course with new vocabulary and an improved ability to select and
design mobile learning solutions, which can be apps, mobile websites, mobile courses, or mobile training
modules. We will also explore the fast emerging Cloud Learning, Mobile Cloud Learning, and MOOCS.
Because this is a new course, I invite you to contribute to the course content. Google Docs/drive will be set
up to facilitate our sharing of resources and ideas. This is also a project-based course and I will match teams
with clients. You will have an opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects from local or international
organizations.
Major topics: Mobile learning models and examples. Design principles and development process. Adapting
mobile learning for different environments and cultures. Future trends.
Course Goals and Competencies
Students will be able to:
1. Describe current and near future applications of mobile technology in learning environments.
2. Identify an appropriate opportunity for mobile learning, analyze learner needs and goals, analyze
context in terms of culture and policies, and describe the design of an application that would address
those needs.
3. Develop a short proposal for the use of mlearning in a context of your choice and Develop a
prototype to demonstrate the design.
4. Analyze mobile learning environments (and traditional ones) in terms of the kinds of interactions
they support, the locus of instructional control they exemplify, and the level of cognitive complexity
they require.
5. Explain the benefits and current limitations of mobile learning and decide on an appropriate solution
to a given situation.
6. Describe examples of a range of mobile learning programs and platforms and the learning objectives
they are best suited for.
7. Stay up to date on developments in mlearning by maintaining a system of rss feeds and bookmarks
tailored to your interests.
Texts
Book: Content Strategy for Mobile: website
Book: Learning Everywhere: How Mobile Content Strategies are Transforming Training (Chad Udell, 2012)
Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design (ISBN: 9780321703545) (Pearson, 2010)
Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 (ISBN: 9781849693189) (Packt Publishing, 2012)
Course Assignments
Event
Team investigation and report
mLearn
topic
Emerging
Tech Tool Presentation
mLearn Project Proposal
100
100
100
Percentage Value
mLearn Prototype
100
Project implementation report
100
Peer review of team work
Total
500
Grading
In order to acknowledge achievements and monitor student progress, LDT faculty use a realistic and
meaningful system for grading performance. We recognize that the University and our professional
community expect our program to maintain standards that reflect its reputation as one of the foremost of
its type in the country.
According to our University’s Graduate Bulletin,
A: outstanding achievement; available for only the highest accomplishment.
B: praiseworthy performance; definitely above average.
C: average, awarded for satisfactory performance.
Attendance and Participation
Attendance, promptness and participation are both expected and appreciated. You'll get the most out of
this experience by reading assignments prior to class and coming to sessions prepared to share your
opinions of and reactions to them. In essence, you're taking on major ethical responsibilities, including
respect for confidentiality within the seminar and the client-consultant relationship.