Catering to Mobile: Recipes for Professional Development in the Network Era
Session Abstract
Your smartphone could guide a NASA spaceship! What can mobile devices do for you? Grounded within the theory of connectivism and networked learning, this session will motivate you to upgrade your professional development plan with tools like Evernote, ProProfs, social media, and MOOCs to enhance your learning activities.
Target Audience
Adult Educators, Adult Learners, Instructional Designers, Practitioners, Students
Session Description
It is not enough to just be able to perform one’s job well. Adults must remain motivated to increase their skillset to match the increasing pace of changes in their profession. The major purpose of this presentation is to explore a variety of educational applications adults can use to enhance their professional development activities.
Mobile learning has changed over the past ten years since the adoption of Smartphones. With the improvement of mobile devices and internet in countries like the United States, not only has the speed of access to information at our fingertips grown, but so our ability to create and synthesize new information.
Attendees of this presentation will explore apps that will increase their involvement in any professional development activity regardless of the resources provided by the professional development facilitator.
We will explore apps which can build upon or augment the Adult learner’s experiences.
Apps that will help adults find content relevant to their profession or personal lives will be presented, as well as how to identify good resources within.
As Andragogy principles implies, adults will be involved in learning of new mobile tools and experience the influence of these tools into their professional lives.