They gave the students HP RX3725 Pocket PCs with WiFi, camera capability and a browser. The authors really valued what they referred to as a “one-to-one &# relationship between mobile devices and students, i.e. each student should have a mobile device, it should not be a shared resource. I recently got my hands on an article called “Leveraging Mobile Technology for Sustainable Seamless Learning: A Research Agenda&# , in the British Journal of Educational Technology. Little Bit About the Approach. Highlights from the Article. and Lung-Hsiang Wong. MORE >>

Simultaneously, improved text recognition will allow retrieval of, or access to, web-based activities or resources simply by typing or writing our a URL in human-readable form and pointing a mobile phone camera at that URL.  This would completely bypass the need to create a QR Code in the first place, as well as having the advantage of knowing where your phone browser is taking you.  I’ve been writing about QR Codes in education for the last five years ( [link] ), on this blog, as well as in a few published and formal papers. MORE >>

Mobile browsers, even on smart phones, are not conducive to searching, browsing, or exploration. Mobile visitors have limited non-standard browsers with which to get information. Additionally, there are dozens of browsers and formats among the hundreds of makes and models. Tags: All Posts Mobile Resources mobile mobile commons targeting usability web Thirty-eight percent of American mobile phone users — 120 million people — access the web via their mobile device; fewer than 30 million are iPhones or Android phones. Not so with the mobile web. MORE >>

The proprietary UbiSurfer browser shrinks data using Datawind’s own proxy servers and allows for fast web delivery on existing infrastructure. Additional information is available at [link] Kajeet and Telcordia for Learning outside the Classroom, powered by Kajeet for Education with Telcordia's Charging and Policy controls By providing specialized mobile broadband connected Smart devices to schools and colleges, Kajeet is helping to ensure that the move from paper-based teaching resources is accomplished fairly across all students. The device also has phone functionality. MORE >>

The Mobile Learning Edge Home About Contents Resources Apps & Content Assessment Associations Authoring Tools Bibliography Blogs Collaboration Conferences Consultants Content Creation Games & Sims Hardware Information Sources Learning Management Mentoring Presentation Skills Researchers Services Social Media Videoconferencing Buy the Book The Mobile Learning Edge: Table of Contents by admin on September 17, 2010 It helps to know what a book is about by skimming the Table of Contents. Here is the TOC for The Mobile Learning Edge : 1. WordPress Admin MORE >>