Mobile Learning Week Presentations

Mobiles for Literacy

• English In Action: innovation using mobile for classroom and adult learning in Bangladesh - Richard Lace and Robina Shaheen (English in Action)
• Literacy and Mobiles in Poor Populations: What Do We Call ‘Success’? - Dan Wagner (University of Pennsylvania)
• The mEducation Alliance and Mobiles for Reading Landscape Review- Presentation of Initial Findings - Anthony Bloome (USAID/E3)/Rebekah Levi (mEducation Secretariat/JBS International)
• Mobile Telephony for Development in Nigeria: Designing mobile technology enabled applications in Local languages - Christine I. Ofulue (National Open University of Nigeria)/Tunde Adegbola(African Languages Technology Initiative)/Francis O. Egbokhare (University of Ibadan)
• The four M's of m-learning instructional design: Microlearning, Multimedia, Motivation and Mastery - Sarah Lucas Pouezevara (RTI International)
• Mobile devices enable reading in those with dyslexia - Matthew H. Schneps (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
• Mobile Learning and Numeracy in International Cooperation - Nils Geissler (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit)
• Mobiles for Literacy at the Bottom of the Pyramid: A New Approach to Sustainability - Isabelle Duston (Smart4Kids LLC)
• Cell-ED: Bringing Basic Literacy to Adults One Mobile Phone at a Time - Susan L. Smalley (Cell-ED)
• UNESCO's Work in Mobile Learning - Mark West (UNESCO)
• The Worldreader Books app for feature phones: ½ million readers and growing - Elizabeth Hensick Wood (Worldreader)

Mobiles for Education Quality

• Addressing the 10 Barriers to Scaling up Mobile Learning in Classrooms - Cathie Norris/Elliot Soloway (University of North Texas/University of Michigan)
• MobiMOOC: using a mobile MOOC to increase educational quality for a diversity of learners through dialogue and ubiquity - Inge Ignatia de Waard (Institute of Tropical Medicine)
• The Mobile Learning Imperative - Steven Duggan (Microsoft Corporation)
• The use of mobile phones in IICD education projects: some lessons learned - Caroline Figueres (International Institute for Communication and Development)
• Teacher Development with Mobiles – Comparative Critical Factors - Karl Royle (University of Wolverhampton)
• No, They Can’t Wait - Lucy Haagen (M-Ubuntu)
• Mobilizing Teachers: bridging the gap between theory, and practice - Geoff Stead (Qualcomm)
• How effective are mobile phones in improving the quality of teacher education and early grade reading and literacy? - Hellen N. Inyega (University of Nairobi)
• Mobile learning in adult education. Guidelines for practitioners and examples of good practices - Norbert Pachler/Maria Ranieri (University of London/University of Florence)
• Millennials as Mobile Educators - Innovative Youth Workforce Development Solutions - Theophilus van Rensburg Lindzter (M-Ubuntu)
• Improving Communication Skills in the Workplace Using Mobile Learning - Mohamed Ally/Mohammed Samaka (Athabasca University/Qatar University)
• Re-defining access to education and employability: how Handheld Learning enhances opportunity through English skills - Michael Carrier (British Council)
• Mobile Learning Readiness to Promote World Heritage Site Literacy: Case of Luang Prabang, Lao PDR - Shinobu Yamaguchi/Yew Siang Poong (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Interactive Learning Strategies for Mobile Learning - Anthony Ralston (UNHCR)
• Brainphone for m-learning – Brainwave enabled multifunctional, communication, controlling and speech signal generating device - Kiran R. Trivedi (Shantilal Shah Engineering College)
• SMILe-CIS: An SMS-based communication and information system for monitoring and supporting improvement of schooling process - Elena Duro (UNICEF)/Corina Lusquiños (Proyecto Gema)/Hugo Labate (Proyecto Gema)
• Powering school performance: Deploying scalable and sustainable school systems on mobile devices - Nick Novak (Arbor Education)/John Rendel (PEAS)
• Nokia Mobile Mathematics - Supporting Learner’s Motivation to Study Mathematics with Mobile Technology - Teija Vainio and Tanja Walsh (Tampere University of Technology)
• Using technology to improve teacher quality & enhancing classroom experience to ensure positive outcomes on children’s learning - Anuragini Nagar (Sesame Workshop India Trust)
• Educational planning: school census by mobile phone technology - Ilona Genevois and Khadim Sylla (UNESCO IIEP)

Mobiles for Gender Equality

• SMS for Changing Life - Taipida Moodhitaporn (Oxfam Great Britain)
• Girl-Powered Mobile Learning Innovation: The Barriers, the Potential - Ronda Zelezny-Green (GSMA)
• eLife Tablet for Teachers presents valuable life and business skills lesson using an Android tablet - Louise Guido (Foundation for Social Change)
• Empowering girls and women through technology to participate and prosper and lead in the global economy - François Ledoux (Intel Corporation)
• The Mobile Utility Gap and Literacy Challenges in Oral-Language Communities: SMS use by Berber Women - Leslie L. Dodson (University of Colorado-Boulder)
• Co-creating a mobile and distance learning approach in Afghanistan - Merel van der Woude (Butterfly Works)
• Challenging Illiteracy Through Mobile Phones - Shaheen Attiq ur Rahman (Bunyad Foundation)
• Using Mobile Phones to Accelerate Literacy Education and Empower Afghan Women - Sakena Yacoobi (Afghan Institute of Learning)

French and Spanish Presentations

• Competencias del Lenguaje con tecnología móvil - Sylvia B. Ortega Salazar/Patricia Pernas (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional)
• How can Mobile support francophone educational e-twinning and 1st West-african Open e-textbook set? - Puiségur-Pouchin Geneviève (APRELIA)
• Mobile Education Lab (MEL) - Discover, Experiment, Invent. Co-creative laboratory for mobile and transmedia education - Martín Restrepo (Editacuja)
• Formation d'instituteurs assistée par mobile à Madagascar - Pierre-Jean Loiret (Agence universitaire de la Francophonie)/Erwan Le Quentrec (Orange)
• Développement d'une application mobile offline multiplateforme pour les activités pédagogiques des enseignants dans IFADEM - Papa Youga DIENG (Ministère de l’Education)/Rachid EL BOUSSARGHINI (Organisation internationale de la Francophonie)
• unX: A Latin American Community for Entrepreneurship in the Digital Economy - Daniel Torres and Marta Caceres (CSEV Foundation)
• The sustainable development approach: Clic Vert - Vincent Blanchard (Ateliers du Bocage)
• Programa Piloto de Tecnología Movil para el Desarrollo Profesional del Docente - Edith Bernáldez Reyes (Unidad de Enlace de Vinculación, Fortalecimiento Educativo y Coordinación Paraestatal)