Having a browser on the phone opens up all the learning resources available on the web, including Google, LMS applications, typical eLearning courseware and other tools/applications. Similar to India, it’s hard to quantify adoption in more developed markets. However, the feasibility of such an approach depends on the cost of development and deployment of such applications, which are quite high at this time. In the future, we will see mobile phones, computers and various other computing/media devices (iPods, Digital Cameras, PDAs, etc.) MORE >>

At ITM we are looking for an online course tutor and developer to tutor a course called eSCART and collaboratively built future online courses as well. The Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerpen, Belgium is looking for an online course tutor/developer to start working at the department of Clinical Sciences, in the Unit Infectious Diseases. Thee Unit Infectious Diseases is organizing di fferent courses some of which are developed as e-learning courses. develop Standard Operating Procedure's (SOPs) for the online courses for the purpose of quality assurance. MORE >>

Home WordPress Plugins Google Wave Tips Contact Notebook MASHe The Higher Education blog from the JISC RSC Scotland North & East Mobile Learning: Some resources, tools and statistics I was looking for resources for a potential mobile workshop and came across the slides below from Judy Brown. Using this and a number of applications specifically developed for iPhone/iTouch ACU students have access to a range of tools and resources including learning content, classroom communication (including a virtual EVS/clicker), ebooks, podcasts, notetaking tools, and gradebooks. MORE >>

Today I was following the presentation and live discussion on the topic of Android phones for Africa by Nick Short , Andrew Hagner and Niall Winters , taken place during the Learning Future Festival 2010 , an online conference organized by the University of Leicester. New opportunities to old challenges One health and veterinary apps Android in Africa initiative Future possibilities Mobile penetration is increasing in Africa. Answer: mobile technology will have a very profound effect in low resource areas. Tags: mobile low resource setting mobile learning MORE >>

This week was rather busy, developing an online mobile course that will be open to all, following LAK the open course on learning analytics and finalizing a needs assessment, on top of regular work. The use case: A young manager quarterly runs a tool to picture his social network, as part of his continuous leadership development. Semantic Web: An Introduction: [link] Welcome to the Metaweb [link] (Metaweb was purchased by Google in 2010, but this is still a nice resource on dealing with ambiguity of words/text) Ray, K (2009) Web 3.0 The LAK content keeps intriguing. MORE >>