The speakers talk about mobile handhelds as a “convergence device&#. lab reports, field data collecting, social networking within a class, creating e-portfolios, making a student newspaper available to students, and other university communications, such as alerts.  The main thing is to get the students to do the learning by being active and use the phone as their reporting tool. » “Mobile Learning 2.0: The Next Phase of Innovation in Mobility,&# the 2010 ELI Online Spring Focus Session. This ownership is likely to keep growing. MORE >>

wireless have the potential to improve the connectivity of mobile devices and competition should help reduce the cost and improve the performance of these services in future. Convergence Desktop computing brought together many tools into a single device. Mobile technology is now converging many of the same tools into even more compact forms. The convenience of this convergence is what will drive the success of high-end mobile devices, with functionality gradually “trickling down&# into lower-specified, lower priced mobile devices over time. « Welcome. MORE >>

Mobile Learning An Online Reflective Journal on Mobile Learning Practice Home Winksite Store Resources About Mobile Contact Keitai – The Future of PDAs 16 10 2006 Stephanie Rieger’s excellent Keitai mobility blog features a great analysis of trends in mobile computing and convergence , with reference to opinions on the decline of PDAs in favour of smartphones , and Fujitsu Siemens’ recent release of a purpose-built m-learning PDA for m-learning. being a phone).  I’d go a fully enabled “phone&# anyday if you know what I’m getting at. Ubiquette. MORE >>

See also Horizon’s 2010 report , which points to these trends.  Personally, I see this convergence of content form and device function opening up vast new domains of content creation potential; especially since phone apps are more increasingly used as free e-readers or content organizers that allow pushing and pulling of remote content in a pay to play (or read) model (see Amazon’s iPhone Kindle application). While it was enlightening to see Steve Jobs demonstrate what the iPad can do, I found it more interesting to see what the iPad cannot do. MORE >>

eLearning report: Review of Learning 2.0 Golden Swamp , November 12, 2009 Android mLearning project- in Brisbane, Queensland (in today’s courier mail) - uLearning Blog , November 3, 2009 European report on 'The Impact of Social Computing on the EU Information Society and Economy' also mobile social media - Ignatia Webs , November 26, 2009 Other Sources The following are the top items based on social signals. Best of Mobile Learning November 1, 2009 to November 30, 2009 Featured Sources The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. MORE >>