Before you focus in on possible content and activities, there are some wider issues that you need to explore. It makes a lot of sense for learners to use their own devices for out of class , optional, on the move mobile learning, and class sets in the classroom for more formal learning activities…. Or is your use of mobile learning going to be discrete – that is, learners use handheld devices every now and again, for ´one-off´ activities? April 2010. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook. Add this to Google Reader. What to do? MORE >>

they used: GPS, sensors for movements, compass working with AOS (Apple), but they also want to go with android platform. in February 2010 with Parthenon with classical students, they said that the mobile should not be 'competing' with the real objects. It is a function of the activity and culture in which it occurs. Gunnar is a curly person with glasses, who just gives an AMAZING presentation!! Please if you can, look this research up! It is so strongly build (sustainable, new, well-thought throug). Just amazing! So they try to experiment with new media's. MORE >>

Everyone talks about how smartphones are really "pocket computers" -- and to some extent they are -- but the reality is some of the older mobile device still in active service are more akin to an early Osborne 1 luggable portable PC (circa 1981) than they are to a sleek and powerful mordern Dell Precision laptop or Apple Macbook Pro. If the mobile audience is well defined, say the sales team and everyone has one of two different BlackBerry wireless handhelds configured the same and using the same carrier, your set of challenges is defined and well contained. seem advanced. MORE >>

In my state alone we have well over 200 educators active on our iPhone and iPod touch in education discussion list. They have been called the first computer you can use without instructions, and they and their ilk (we need more Android mobile devices here please Google et al) seem to be building up a momentum that even more than the many hundred of thousands of laptops mentioned in the first two examples may be bringing Australia towards a ubiquitous computing environment (apparently over 1 million iPhone’s have been sold in Australia for instance). MORE >>

IDOS Blog IDT Roundtable Search Instructional Design for Mediated Education Blog Entry Location-Based Learning by Eruditio Loginquitas One comment 07 January 2010 In higher education, the uses of location-based learning seem to be limited to particular projects. And there are all sorts of learning games where learners may coordinate activities; these may involve geo-caching and other spatialized fun. Some apps that this presenter mention were Google Goggles (an application on Android 1.6+-enabled These ideas were strengthened in a recent webinar. Wiki Mania! MORE >>