The 2010 Horizon Report predicts that mobile technology will be mainstream by the end of this year. This Guardian Weekly article , for example, reports on the massive rise of mobile phone use in Africa. Even the simplest mobile devices such as low-end mobile phones (which are not necessarily Internet enabled) allow access to learning content via SMS, as the BBC Janala project in Bangladesh shows. Publishers are starting to produce apps (applications, or programs) which you can download onto your iPhone or Android phone. And this was back in 2005!! Tweet This! MORE >>

will be mobile by johnmill on July 13, 2010 As more and more humans come equipped with a networked mini-computer in their pocket, it’s obv that the next wave in distance learning will be mobile. Sharples et al, 2005) The ability that mobiles give us to slide from context to context aligns mLearning with some important characteristics of learning in general. Kukulska-Hulme et al 2007, p14) —- Sharples M, Taylor J and Vavoula G (2005) Towards a Theory of Mobile Learning. Just smart phones? Is online learning necessarily constructivist? 13–35. Tablets too? MORE >>

Online Educator Teaching and learning in the global network Home About Vitae Publications Classes Speaking EDTECH Island Recommendations Thoughts about mobile learning 16 01 2010 There’s an interesting new forecast from Gartner predicting that within three years, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common web browsing device, with approx. billion devices accessing information on the cloud. Just yesterday, our faculty were looking at Google Analytics of our student portal, and saw we had 2% access by iPhone (and 35% by Mac). It’s a small number, but a beginning. MORE >>

Contact Me New Photo Gallery ELI Focus – Mobile Learning By Raj , March 5, 2010 11:04 am, I missed the first day of this session because I was home sick, but I did take away some important confirmations from the second day. This wasn’t the only bit on mlearning this week = I also spotted this (Cell Phones R 4 More Than Texting) over twitter as well as this (Using mobile phones to improve educational outcomes: An analysis of evidence from Asia John-Harmen Valk, Ahmed T. Branching out from there, podcasts (but not talking heads !) 75) Toys (128) Web X.0 MORE >>

Home About Contact Featured Videos Subscribe Audio + Visual + Apps = Mobile Learning by Renee Robbins on January 8, 2010 After taking part in last night’s #lrnchat , I am as convinced as ever that we need to do away with the term “mobile learning.&#   It’s just too broad of a term.  gwoodill: 2005 def: “Mlearning is learning on devices which a lady can carry in her handbag or a gentleman can carry in his pocket.” The group seemed to struggle for the entire 90 minutes with a the true definition.  Let’s take a look at the big three, audio, video and apps.  MORE >>