Microbursts: A Design Format for Mobile Cloud Computing

Introduction

Pre-service and cooperating teachers who teach within standards-based driven curriculums with one to five computers in their classrooms sometimes find it difficult to integrate one-to-one higher-level thinking cloud and mobile computing technologies. University faculty could also find it difficult to continually compliment their compact curriculum with current technological enhancements. This article is intended to explore the trend towards the integration of Cloud and Mobile Computing at one higher education learning institution with minimal face-to-face contact with preservice teachers in their field-basing semester, a semester before student teaching.

Specifically, this article addresses a research-based need for such a design format that can be used for any cloud-computing or mobile technology tool. This pedagogically sound framework allows not only K-12 instructional designers, but also instructional designers for all ages to effectively plan and integrate quality interactions within the power of today’s collaborative, digital technologies.