On Friday, September 10, 2010, will be held at University of Distance Education (UNED) a seminar organized by the network eMadrid on "Mobile Learning".

The schedule of talks is as follows:

Schedule

3:00 p.m. to 15:45

Telmo Zarraonandia (UC3M): MW-TELL, use of mobile devices for learning foreign languages

15:45 to 16:30

Emilio Lorenzo (UNED): Integration of different educational applications and experiences in mobile-learning environments

16:30 to 17:15

Lizondo Miguel del Amo (Director, Internet and Mobility Division of Deimos): Facilitating the creation of mobile services: MoBots and gloo

Place

Distance Education University (UNED), Lecture Hall, Faculty of Psychology. University City campus. C / Juan del Rosal, 10. 28040 Madrid

Getting There ( details ):

• Metro and bus: From metro station "University City" (line 6) you can walk (1.8 kms northwest) or take the bus "U" with down at the last stop "Powers UNED" (end of tour .)
• Bus:
  • Line 133: From the city center (Plaza Callao). Travel the Road - 6 until the stop at the Veterinary Faculty. Get off at this point, without crossing the bridge, walk 50 meters to the left to find some stairs that take you to our building.
  • Line 82: From Moncloa (Moncloa metro station). Get off at Faculty of Physics or Telecommunications ETSI. UNED is a 10 minute walk.
  • Line F: From Cuatro Caminos (Plaza de Cuatro Caminos). Get off of the Faculty of Law. UNED is a five minute walk.
• Car: from the M - 30 (clockwise) A - 6 out of diversion C / Sinesio Delgado and into the C. University (from the north by the CIEMAT). After the roundabout take the first right (Between Law and the School of Legal Practice) and to the bottom, turn right and straight on until you reach the ETSI Informática (UNED).

Summary of talks

MW-TELL, use of mobile devices for learning foreign languages

Over the past decade has witnessed a revolution in the area of communications and information technology. This revolution has been due in part to the consolidation of digital mobile telephony and the development of laptops and digital cameras become more sophisticated. These three technologies have finally converged in devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) or smartphones, which allow Internet access almost anywhere, sending and sharing of documents or the management and disposal of the various events taking place in everyday life.

The use of these devices to support or help in the teaching-learning processes can have multiple benefits, most of which derive from the flexibility allowed to enter when following these learning processes, and facilities offered to establishing and fostering communication and interaction between different participants in the process.

In this context, the MW-TELL project addresses the need to provide services for foreign language training supported by mobile devices, to overcome the usual restrictions of space and time. To this end, raises, among other objectives, the development of tools to allow publication and appropriate monitoring of courses and educational materials through these devices, and maintaining a repository for the storage of material for language training English specifically designed for this type of learning environment.

Integration of different educational applications and experiences in mobile-learning environments

Currently, paradigms and teaching methods make the learning process is increasingly decentralized regarding classroom and school hours (anytime, anywhere). There is a tendency in many cases, continuous learning and cross-sectional areas based on capabilities (skills) to measure. The advancement of communication technology enables these paradigms can be developed more and more normal.

On this line of collaborative learning activities and "long term" need formats "rich media" and the collaboration of different applications, each specializing in specific teaching tasks. From this point of view our approach extends the learning objects of classical design course content or tools, to be treated as a result of these tools along a pedagogical activity. Will explain the proposed architecture to support this infrastructure sharing results of different tools. This approach includes both desktop applications or Web access and applications developed for mobile devices. It discussed the results of experiments conducted with particular reference to lessons learned in the field of mobile learning.

Facilitating the creation of mobile services: MoBots and gloo

It will exhibit two new concepts that illustrate new ways of approaching the creation of mobile services: MoBots and gloo.

MoBots is a new way for users to define their own personal use services on the mobile.Through a simple graphical language can define specific behaviors depending on the context information of the device. You learn new ways to get more out of an increasingly powerful device.

Gloo is a platform for Web developers can integrate their mobile services mashups without knowledge of mobile environments. Gloo hides all the problems of fragmentation and dispersal of operating systems and can approach the world of mobility from the Web in an original and different.

Biographies of speakers

Telmo Zarraonandia Ayo (UC3M)

He is a professor in the department of Computer Science Technical School of the University Carlos III of Madrid. He is a member of DEI research group and research interests focus on the area of e-Learning and Web technologies.

Emilio Lorenzo (UNED)

Senior Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.Assistant professor in the department of Languages and Systems (LSI) of UNED and member of LTCs. His research is related to collaborative learning environments in secondary education, development of educational tools for data collection and storage.Currently focused on modeling and interoperability of products generated by students during their learning activities.

Miguel Lizondo (Deimos-Space)

Lizondo Miguel del Amo is Director of the Division of Internet and mobility and co-founder of DEIMOS. Always focused on new technologies, has developed his career in various fields from education, video games and the Internet to software engineering for the space sector.

During the last decade has been directly involved in the world of mobility, where he has lived in first person the great social change that has led to the evolution of the mobile phone device as massive use with permanent connection to the Internet.