To talk about the concept of ubiquitous learning, I would like to start bringing back some key concepts mentioned by two exceptional teachers, who revolutionized globally the concepts of education, classroom, and learning in the recent past. One is Dr. Daphne Koller from the University of Stanford and Co-Founder of Coursera, and Dr. Anant Agarwal from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Co-Founder of edX. And I said in the recent past since these two educational platforms were launched just recently in 2012.

In these two videos from the TED Talk series, both Professors provided some impressive stats regarding the use of MOOC’s:

Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6FvJ6jMGHU

Anant Agarwal: Why massively open online courses (still) matter

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYwTA5RA9eU

In both Educational Platforms is evident that the use of Technology expands the boundaries of the traditional four-wall-classroom and reach new limits not seen before (i.e. Enrollments of +100,000 students from at least 190 countries attending a MOOC course in a specific period).

This new reality of education is possible thanks to the extensive use of technology, computers and devices, applied software, internet and a renewed scope in pedagogy. Thanks to this learning platforms that rapidly evolved since their inception in 2012 to reinvent the paradigm of the educational process, dividing the epistemology of knowledge in small fractions, creative use of multimedia materials and the socialization of students between themselves and their professors and tutors.

To apply the notion of Ubiquitous Education in a closer perspective, I developed a Study Case-based in a Marketing Course for college students of Advertising and Photography.

Please view - https://padlet.com/philobulus/3funmzj9p72i

Following are some of my key learnings under the scope of Ubiquitous Learning:

Blended learning - The combination of education under the traditional style within the classroom is complemented with the virtual classroom technology (i.e. with Moodle)
The Flipped classroom - With the use of Moodle as my LMS, I gradually switched from the traditional style course to one more open and flexible with activities to do, read, and accomplish activities within Moodle often out of the classroom walls and regular schedule.
Learning Management systems - One of the LMS that I use frequently on my courses is Moodle, therefore in my process of learning I found that other interesting alternatives are already available such as Scholar, that is designed more centered in the student and the interaction with other students and the professor. The peer review and the collaboration is more encouraged.
Collaborative Workspaces – The Cloud Concept is a revolutionary new digital environment that allows users to simultaneously work on a specific document or database. In my case the Suite Office Online allow the students to have the chance to have their assigned project "open" for edit & review with their own team and the professor.
ePortfolio - The reason to use the Office Suite Online rely entirely on the idea that the students will develop their School Project in ePortfolio. This will allow them to share, compare, update and connect all the time from anywhere. Furthermore, these digital documents hopefully will be easier to store and use in the near future for them
Mobile learning – Is a reality that now our students interact with the world all the time thanks to the use of computers, tablets, and smartphones. This school project was managed with the use of the Tool Trello. This Multiplatform Project Manager allows the students to manage their project, get updates, notification about deadlines and requirements to address in the project in all that devices.
Networked learning - To promote a networked learning I used the Padlet Software. In the example the use of this tool by the students during a 3 weeks activity for a Situation Analysis (They usually obtained the information -in situ- with the Company that each Team chooses to build a Marketing Case Study). The Situation analysis in the study case refers to a collection of methods that managers use to analyze an organization's internal and external environment to understand the organization's capabilities, customers, and business environment. For me was very interesting how each Team organize their information and effectively use Padlet to share this knowledge with their classmates.
Over-the-shoulder learning - My experience in the past years using Moodle as an LMS and the implementation of other several tools as Office Online, Padlet and Trello has been highly productive and motivating for the students and for myself.
I included finally an Interaction Chart of the Students with the Moodle Virtual Classroom during the day to assess how they use this diverse technology to push the learning process and interaction with open technologies far beyond the four walls of the classroom in ubiquitous time and place. My conclusion is that the learning process effectively occurs within a blended course using all these tools applied to the education process in different time frames along the day and night.

My Class - Marketing Course 2017