IMPALA Informal Mobile Podcasting and Learning Adaptation

Dissemination

IMPALA's systematic dissemination strategy uses the Internet, presentations, workshops, publications and Podcasting.

• The project website will include: work-in-progress, research tools, literature, an online discussion forum, blogs, a gallery of Podcasts, a wiki for work groups, subject-specific exemplars, use cases, resources and tools for practitioners, links to HEA, Subject Centres, CETLs and relevant JISC and other m-learning projects.
• HEA Subject Centres: Early engagement with relevant subject centres will lead to each discipline involved in the IMPALA project offering a workshop and papers to its subject centre inviting critical review of the models.
• CETLs: The project team is working with the three partner CETLs and others (including Reusable Learning Objects, Enabling Achievement within a Diverse Student Body, The Blended Learning Unit).
• Workshop and Seminars: at institutional and national levels will increase impact including Beyond Distance Research Alliance national workshop in January 2007 in The Media Zoo at UoL.
• Communication to the research, academic and practitioner communities through key-note speeches, presentations and workshops at national and international conferences on e-learning, mobile learning and higher education research (ALT-C 2006, 2007; HEA Conferences, SRHE 2007; Online Educa Berlin 2006, EDEN 2007 and mLearn). Gilly and Palitha presented workshops on the IMPALA pilot to the Blended Learning: Integration and Innovation Conference in Falmouth (06.04.2006) and Blended Learning Conference at the University of Hertfordshire (15.06.2006). Two more workshops will be conducted at ALT-C 2006 in Sept 2006 and Online Educa Berlin in Dec 2006.
• Papers: will cover the overall project implementation and the findings; the nature of informal and situated learning provided by Podcasting and the relevant pedagogy; evaluation methodology used, with an activity theory perspective, student learning experience through Podcasts in different subjects; social, institutional and psychological perspectives of mobile learning.