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Overview of mobile devices, use and their role in education.

Mobile learning

What is being done to capitalize on the availability of mobile devices? How can mLearning contribute to formal and informal education? Are there examples of innovations and successes with mLearning?

• What Can You Learn From A Cell Phone? – Almost Anything!
• ShareIdeas
• Literacy Changes Lives
• M-Learning.org
• .. CIS2 student project mLearning

Resources

• Athabasca Digital Reading Room is going mobile… AU library has implemented a comprehensive mobile library website, containing relevant digital reading files, application tools and software, as well as learning objects (eg mp3 versions of journal articles, video clips, and e-books).

Limitations

What are some of the existing limitations on mLearning? How can these be overcome?

access and equity, connectivity, relevance, flexible assessment, and efficiencies.

Text messaging

• short forms incomprehensible, detract from formal academic and/or business writing practice

Audio only

• phone-in homework
• lecture review
• enrichment resources

Smart phones

What other features are being introduced to mobile devices? How are these being used in education and learning?

• portable video
• integrated web access formatted for device display and behaviors

Assignments, quizzes and assigned reading

• Photoblogging using telephones. (Blogger is particularly good for phones). We did local landmarks and geographical features. Also a vocabulary exercise where each person was given a word to illustrate with three photographs by the end of the day. (If you are going to use blogs use one that is mobile-friendly – like WordPress where you can get a plug-in called WP-Mobile so that students can access them from their mobiles) 25 practical ideas...

Learn more...

• Mobile Learning - student group project