As a followup to my last post, I was thinking how you would use the different modes of mobile (the Four C’s): Content, Compute, Communicate, & Capture, to support the different layers of learning.
Here I’ve made a first attempt at trying to matrix the 3 layers of learning (performance, learning, meta-learning) by the 4 C’s of mobile. It’s indicative, not exhaustive, but it helps me to try to get concrete about what you might do.
As you can see, there’s some overlap, and one questions is are there continuums between the layers. Is performance support categorically different than formal learning, or are their bridges? Is meta-learning categorically different? (I’m not sure I care too much, as long as I’m considering all!)
So, in the interest of learning and thinking ‘out loud’, I invite your feedback.
Love it. I’m forever drawing tables like these :)
In a newer post (1 May) you refer to augment formal. What do you mean by that?
Blair, I mean that not doing formal learning, that is putting a course on a phone, but instead supplementing formal, that is extending it, adding bits to reconceptualize, recontextualize, and reapply. Connecting formal learning to the world where you are, reactivating the concepts to help build the associations, etc. So I’m not talking about mobile (particularly pocketable devices) being responsible for carrying the whole weight of a course, but supplementing instructor-led or asynchronous learning.