Digital Content Creation, Mobile Learning, Gamification

TEACHING UNIT 1. INTRODUCTION TO TEACHING WITH MOBILE DEVICES.

1. What is mobile learning?.
2. Connectivity as a step forward in bridging the digital divide.
3. E-learning.
4. B-learning.
5. M-learning.
6. Standards in Mobile Learning.

TEACHING UNIT 2. THE FUTURE OF MOBILE LEARNING. IMPLICATIONS FOR PLANNING.

1. Social factors shaping the future of mobile learning.
2. Learning contexts.
3. Infrastructure and connectivity.
4. Planning for the management of mobile education.
5. Inclusive and safe mobile learning.

TEACHING UNIT 3. EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES WITH MOBILE LEARNING.

1. What is meant by a ‘mobile experience’?.
2. Legislation on resource consumption.
3. Policies on the use of devices at different stages of education.
4. Apps and tools for mobile learning.
5. Analysis of user experiences from the perspective of resource consumption and device usage.

TEACHING UNIT 4. TECHNOLOGIES USED IN MOBILE LEARNING.

1. Mobile devices: an analysis of their use in education.
2. Access technologies and location technologies.
3. Managing pupils using mobile devices.
4. Technical developments in applications.
5. An analysis of the most compatible operating systems.

TEACHING UNIT 5. THINKING-BASED LEARNING (TBL): A PRELIMINARY STEP TO CONTENT CREATION.

1. What is Thinking-Based Learning?.
2. Stages of the TBL.
3. TBL dimensions
4. Competence standards for critical thinking.
5. TBL Projects.

TEACHING UNIT 6. CONTENT CREATION AND LANGUAGE IN MOBILE LEARNING.

1. The use of audiovisual language.
2. Content display.
3. Interaction with the content.
4. Content creation, publication and communication.
5. Project-based learning (PBL), outside the classroom.

TEACHING UNIT 7. CREATING CONTENT FOR THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM METHODOLOGY.

1. Why? What is it, and what isn’t it?.
2. The four pillars.
3. Methodology, or how do you organise a lesson if there is no lesson?.
4. Guidelines for creating content in a flipped classroom.
5. Video editing to create content.
6. Using apps as creative tools.

TEACHING UNIT 8. GAMIFICATION AS A TEACHING STRATEGY.

1. The use of games in the classroom: advantages and disadvantages.
2. The use of play in the classroom as a means of managing emotions.
3. The dynamics of gamification in learning processes.
4. How do you design a gamification process?.
5. The game review.
6. Ideas for gamification.

TEACHING UNIT 9. 3D VIRTUAL WORLDS IN EDUCATION.

1. Qr.
2. Augmented reality.
3. 3D printing.
4. Image, pattern and shape recognition.
5. 3D visualisation systems.