Ubiquitous Learning and MOOCs

• Ubiquitous learning (u-learning) provides access to information and learning materials anytime, anywhere, facilitated by wireless networks and mobile computers.

Characteristics of Ubiquitous Learning

• Accessibility: Learning is accessible regardless of time or location.
• Adaptability: Learners receive tailored learning experiences to suit individual needs.
• Interactivity: Active learning experiences are fostered through engagement, discussions, and collaboration.

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

• MOOCs are online systems providing content accessible to many people.
• "Massive" indicates a large number or amount.
• "Open" means accessible to all.
• "Online" indicates a system connection.
• "Course" signifies movement in a path.

Types of MOOCs

• XMOOCs: Extended MOOCs use traditional university structures.
• CMOOCs: Connectivist MOOCs favor learner collaboration.

Conceptual Differences between xMOOCs and CMOOCs

• XMOOCs offer scalability for a larger audience.
• CMOOCs focus on massive communities and connections.
• XMOOCs have restricted licenses.
• CMOOCs offer open access and licensing.
• XMOOCs use single platforms.
• CMOOCs operate across multiple platforms and services.
• XMOOCs provide a curriculum of knowledge and skills.
• CMOOCs focus on developing shared practices, knowledge, and understanding.

Importance of MOOCs

• MOOCs provide affordable, flexible learning and quality educational experiences at scale.
• MOOCs provides forums for discussions on upgrading worker skills for employment.

Media and Information Literate Individual

• Individuals can find, evaluate, and use reliable information, and communicate through various formats.

Implication of Media and Information: Personal

• The quality of life is improved.
• Communication has been made easier.
• Information has become widely accessible.

Implication of Media and Information: Educational

• Learning environment improves through interactive media platforms.
• Learning modalities are reinvented, making knowledge more accessible.
• Information is easily accessed and assessed for students.
• Learning resources can be easily improvised for different student aptitudes.

Implication of Media and Information: Social

• People are connected in ways not previously possible.
• False information is avoided leading to preservation of social relationships.
• Camaraderie, interaction, and exposure to different cultures are facilitated.
• Social networks are used to build support groups for various advocacies.

Implication of Media and Information: Professional

• Professional networks are built.
• Job applications become easier through online websites.
• Convenience is provided in sharing personal profiles to propective companies.
• Work can be done from home.

People Media

• Individuals serve as channels of information.
• Traditionally limited to folk media, writing, or creating media content.
• Social media empowers individuals to create, edit, and provide feedback on media.

Characteristics of Social Media

• Individual profiles are built, including personal details, like, and images.
• Connections with friends and people are facilitated through referrals.
• Real time content is able to be uploaded.
• Conversations are enabled, both privately and públically.
• Provides tracking through history and threads

Formats and Examples of Social Media

• Relationship/Social Networks: Facebook.
• Micro-blogging: Twitter, Instagram.
• Special Interest Networks: LinkedIn, Pinterest.
• Media Sharing: YouTube, Flickr.
• Collaborative News: Reddit, Waze.
• Discussion Forums: Google Groups.
• Group Buying/Merchant Sites: OLX, Groupon, Dealgrocer.

Text Media

• Text is a simple and flexible format to present information whether handwritten, printed, or displayed on-screen.

Formal Text-Based Materials

• Created by established institutions and undergo editing or evaluation.

Informal Text-Based Materials

• Come from personal opinions on different issues.

Typeface

• Refers to the representation or style of text in the digital format.

Types of Typefaces

• Serif: Used for formality and readability.
• Sans serif: Used for clear and direct meaning.
• Slab serif: Used for a solid or heavy look.
• Script: Used for formal events.
• Display/Decorative: Used for a wide variety of emotions or themes.

Text Design Principles and Elements

• Emphasis: Refers to making text bold or italicized to highlight a message.
• Appropriateness: Refers to suitability of text to audience, purpose, or event.
• Proximity: Refers to how near or far text elements are from each other.
• Alignment: Refers to how text is positioned.
• Organization: Ensures connected text elements.
• Repetition: Concerns consistency of elements and design unity.
• Contrast: Creates visual interest through element differences.

Visual Information and Media

• Materials, programs, and applications formulate new information through images.

Types of Visual Media

• Photography, video, screenshots, infographics, data visualization, comics, memes, visual note-taking.

Visual Media Production

• Formal production: Organizations.
• Informal production: Individuals.

Visual Information Purpose

• To gain attention, create meaning, and facilitate retention.

Visual Design Elements

• Line: Describes a shape or outline.
• Shape: A geometric area.
• Value: The degree of light and dark in a design.
• Texture: The way a surface feels or is perceived to feel.
• Color: Determined by its hue, intensity, and value.
• Form: A figure having volume and thickness.

Visual Design Principles

• Consistency of margins, typeface, typestyle, and colors.
• Center of interest: An area that first attracts attention.
• Balance: A feeling of visual equality.
• Harmony: Brings together similar unites.
• Contrast: It offers some change in value creating a visual discord
• Directional movement: A visual flow
• Rhythm: A movement in which some elements recur regularly.
• Perspective: Created through the arrangement of objects in two-dimensional space.

Audio Information and Media

• Radio broadcast: Live/recorded audio sent via radio waves.
• Music: Vocal/instrumental sounds combined harmoniously.
• Sound recording: Recording an interview, meeting, or any sound.
• Sound clips/effects: Sounds artificially reproduced for effect.
• Audio Podcast: A digital audio/video file or recording.

Different Ways of Storing Audio Media

• Tape: A magnetic tape.
• CD: a medium for recording, storing, and playing back audio, video, and computer data.
• USB drive: an external flash drive.
• Memory Card: a small storage medium used to store data.
• Computer hard drive: secondary storage devices.
• Internet/Cloud: websites or file repositories.

Different Audio File Format

• MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer 3): A common format for consumer audio
• M4A/AAC (MPEG-4 Audio/Advanced Audio Coding):
• WAV: A Microsoft audio file format standard.
• WMA (Windows Media Audio): audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft.

Elements of Sound Design

• Dialogue, sound Effects, music, silence.

Principles of Sound Design

• Mixing the combination, balance and control of multiple sound elements.
• Pace time control. Editing.
• Transitions

Motion Media

• Is visual media that gives the appearance of movement

Motion Media Formats, Types and Sources

• Animations, video formats/video codecs, education, entertainment, advertising, personal, social Media, media companies, according to audience, private or public, directed or general

Basic Methods on Determining the Credibility of Motion Media

• Validity of information, source, relationship of the author to the event, technical

Technical Methods of Detecting Tampering or Fake Video

• Smoothness of video, lighting coverage matches, scale and size

Advantages of Motion Media and Information

• It captures motion, processes in detail and in sequence, simulations, different cultures and groups scenes, history. events and phenomenon to be recreated.

Limitations of Motion Media and Information

• Interrupt the presentation, is often times more costly, other data may be presented best using still, is subject to misinterpretation Principles of motion media and information revolve around the following essential elements;
• Speed, direction, motion path, timing

Design Principles in Creating Movement

• Speed, direction and timing
• Timing affects recall
• Transitions
• Sound and color
• Cartooning, blurring

Interactive Media

• a method of communication in which the program's outputs depend on the user's inputs a
• Interactivity – the communication process that takes place between humans and computer software.

Different Platforms of Interactive Media

• Mobile apps, 3D TV, Video games (multi-player), Role-playing games (RPG) Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), Interactive websites, Virtual reality and immersive environments,

Different Ways of Interacting with the Internet

• Online shopping, Online gaming, Online classes, Chat, News and information, Videos

Types of Interactivity and Their Purposes

• Click on images, Hotspot, Rollover, Tabs, Timeline, Numbers/processes Slideshow, Frequently asked questions (FAQs) flip cards Emerging Interactive Media Interactive television also known as ITV or iTV.