Mobile Teaching and Learning

Mobile Teaching & Learning in Action

Using Tablet PCs, laptops, PDAs, cell phones, digital wireless cameras and printers, and mobile wireless access points, students and faculty are engaged in exciting initiatives that re-define the classroom, creating new opportunities for inquiry-based curriculum.

Student centered projects originate from such diverse remote environments as the Elkhorn Slough, where CSUMB installed a solar powered transmitter and a wireless mesh network that allow educators to conduct wireless interactive webconferences with local K-12 and high school classrooms and teachers by sharing images and data; at the Carmel Mission, where a satellite dish provides for Internet connectivity between field archaeology and the classroom, to Big Sur where students conduct field geology with GPS & GIS equipped Tablet PC's as digital field notebooks , to the Virtual Language Lab, building peer groups of students at CSUMB & other CSU campuses in critical foreign language learning.

Each project demonstrates how teaching, learning and research can occur using wireless devices in diverse campus and community settings, and each challenges us to redefine what we mean by "classroom."
-- Arlene Krebs, Director, WeTEC

Faculty members are engaged in leveraging technology to increase student learning by reconfiguring the classroom experience, by initiating engaging, innovative pedagogy-in the earth sciences, social sciences, humanities, health and wellness, foreign language and teacher education fields-and by integrating mobile technologies seamlessly into courses. These curricula demonstrate student and society centered outcomes-based pedagogy.

WeTEC has engaged the broader community in many of these initiatives, creating partnerships with other higher education institutions, middle grades and high schools as well as with local research organizations and industry vendors to deploy wireless technologies in community settings.. Our partners can access the content-rich curriculum, use the remote sites to host student research, and enable students to be familiar with technology.

		Math & Mobility Dr. Hongde Hu
		The Mobile Philosopher Dr. John Berteaux
		Web Conferencing from Moss Landing Marine Labs Dr. Simona Bartl, MLML
		HP Tablets: The "Field Books" of the 21st Century Geologist Dr. Doug Smith, Earth Systems Policy (ESP)
		Wireless Web Conferencing LIVE from Elkhorn Slough Dr. Henrik Kibak, Earth Systems Policy (ESP); Kenton Parker, Education Coordinator, Elkhorn Slough; Kalpesh Patel, IT Specialist/Project Coordinator and Jotham Fischer-Smith, MS
		Body Monitoring: Physiological Data - Real World to the Classroom Dr. Kent Adams, Human Performance and Wellness Education Department
		The ROVing Otter Dr. Steven W. Moore, Division of Science & Environmental Policy
		The Mobile Librarian Pam Baker, Coordinator of Library Instruction and Janie Silveria, Librarian
		GIS Seafloor Mapping Dr. Rikk Kvitek & Pat Iampietro, Research Associate, Earth Systems Policy (ESP)
		Wireless Field Archaeology at Spanish Missions Dr. Ruben Mendoza, Social & Behavioral Science
		Mobile Learning and Foreign Languages Dr. Yoshiko Sato-Abbott, Dr. John Ittelson & Gus Leonard.
		Inside & Outside the Network: WiFi & New Performance Environments Michelle Riel, Director, Teledramatic Arts & Technology
		Student Response Systems/CPS-Classroom Performance Systems Sanjay Lanka Business Management, Financial Accounting; Intermediate Accounting Jim Weinstein Business Management, Financial Accounting Barbara Sayad, Foundations of Wellness: Women's Health Issues; Human Sexuality Carla Benejamin, Intro to Life Sciences Susan Alexander, Ecological Systems
		HP iPAQs in Physics Classes Dr. Dan Fernandez
		GPS/GIS Community Mapping Dr. Yong Lao, Social and Behavioral Sciences
		Calculations in Context-Pre-Calculus & Calculus Dr. Don Pierce

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