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M-Learning Articles and Links
- M-Learning Consortium
- What Can You Learn from a Cell Phone? Almost Anything!
- m-learning Project
- Pedagogical Advantages of Ubiquitous Computing in a Wireless Environment
- Mobile learning: a tool for inclusion
- The Handheld Devices for Ubiquitous Learning Project
- Mobile Learning Newsletters
- MOBIlearn
- m-Learning: Mobile, Wireless, In-Your-Pocket learning
M-Learning Consortium
A consortium of leading companies are working together with universities and colleges to explore new ways of using the latest technology to enhance learning for today's students. Mobile Learning (mLearning) utilizes such innovations as wireless communication, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), digital content from traditional textbooks and more, providing a dynamic learning environment for students and laying the framework for more exploration into the fusion of education and technology.
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What Can You Learn from a Cell Phone? Almost Anything!
By Marc Prensky
Introduction
One and a half billion people, all over the world, are walking around with powerful computers in their pockets and purses. The fact is they often do not realize it, because they call them something else. But today's high-end cell phones have the computing power of a mid-1990s personal computer (PC)?while consuming only one one-hundredth of the energy. Even the simplest, voice-only phones have more complex and powerful chips than the 1969 on-board computer that landed a spaceship on the moon...
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m-learning Project
M-learning is concerned with the development of products and services to interest young adults from 16 to 24 who are unemployed or homeless and who are not currently taking part in formal education or training. Subject of interest to young adults such as football and music are used to improve literacy and numeracy.
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Pedagogical Advantages of Ubiquitous Computing in a Wireless Environment
By Susana M. Sotillo
Introduction
..The main objective of this project was to assist a group of five graduate students in applied linguistics with the task of writing and revising their research proposals and masters theses. Wireless computing was chosen because this technology transforms every wireless room into a flexible "computer lab," with students using their laptops to work on their own or in collaboration with others (sharing drafts, charts, and tables, for example)...
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Mobile learning: a tool for inclusion
By Terry Keefe, Ufi Ltd.
Introduction
In Ufi we think mobile technologies offer a tremendous opportunity to re-engage excluded individuals back into society through education. The Moser report identified educational achievement as a major factor in social inclusion. However, mobile technologies are a big leap and it is a risky business...
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The Handheld Devices for Ubiquitous Learning Project
Introduction
The Handheld Devices for Ubiquitous Learning Project (HDUL) is a Provost’s grant to determine how wireless handheld devices can enhance learning and teaching for HGSE's faculty and students, adult participants in the School’s professional development programs, and pre-service teachers working with K-12 students in HGSE’s teacher preparation programs...
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Mobile Learning Newsletters
Read the latest information on m-leanring, mobility, and future markets!
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MOBIlearn
MOBIlearn is a worldwide European-led research and development project exploring context-sensitive approaches to informal, problem-based and workplace learning by using key advances in mobile technologies.
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m-Learning: Mobile, Wireless, In-Your-Pocket learning
The key issues addressed in this paper are where are we and what's next?
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