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I was puzzled by a flurry of messages on some of my favourite mobile learning forums and email groups triggreed by Epic, a UK-based multimedia company, who were predicting that PDAs were on there way out.
For every set of figures saying sales are waning, others tell us that business for handheld vendors is booming.
As somebody who is sitting in the middle of this debate, it feels VERY much to me like more and more people are using mobile devices for learning. In fact, I know this is true.
Every few weeks I am asked for advice on setting up mobile learning friendly environments. Or to advise on which devices might work for a specific school or college.
2 years ago this hardly ever happened.
We bought 25 Vario2's today for a couple of schools we are supporting.
Lets all just enjoy the flow, and make sure our concepts of learning are fluid enough to embrace multi-device, user-driven, multi-modal, collaborative, mobile learning!
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I was puzzled by a flurry of messages on some of my favourite mobile learning forums and email groups triggreed by Epic, a UK-based multimedia company, who were predicting that PDAs were on there way out.
For every set of figures saying sales are waning, others tell us that business for handheld vendors is booming.
As somebody who is sitting in the middle of this debate, it feels VERY much to me like more and more people are using mobile devices for learning. In fact, I know this is true.
Every few weeks I am asked for advice on setting up mobile learning friendly environments. Or to advise on which devices might work for a specific school or college.
2 years ago this hardly ever happened.
We bought 25 Vario2's today for a couple of schools we are supporting.
Lets all just enjoy the flow, and make sure our concepts of learning are fluid enough to embrace multi-device, user-driven, multi-modal, collaborative, mobile learning!
- Mobile Learning Guidelines - Essential Reading For Learning Leaders
Those nice folks at UNESCO continue to champion mobile learning. Earlier this year we praised their grass-roots style Mobile Learning Series, and now they have taken that one step further by developing a set of guidelines for policy makers and learning...
- M-learning In The Usa
The USA has been punching way below it's weight in m-learning for quite some time, but it feels like the giant is slowly awakening: 1: I am on my way to meet the US Navy, who have invited us to run a mobile learning project with them the details...
- Molenet Winners Go Public!
Thanks to the LSN, we have just seen the first, complete list of Colleges and FE Consortia that won slices of the £6m MoLeNET fund. Congratulations all and good luck with your projects! We look forward to seeing how they turn out They are: Aylesbury...
- A Beacon Award For Mobile Learning!
We have had a couple of loyal, enthusiastic user-groups who have been involved with mobile learning from our earliest public trials back in 2003 right through to today. One of them, Pembrokeshire College on the beautiful west coast of Wales, has just...
- Put Those Podcasts To Work On Your Pda!
I am part of the team creating several different mobile learning tools. We make: mobile contenttools to help teachers make their own mobile contentplatforms to help people use SMS and MMS as educational resourcesas well as spending much of our time exploring...