Saturday, May 29, 2010 Merck Manuals > Apple iPhone / iPod Touch Apps The Merck Manual - Home Edition The app provides quick and easy access to the Home Edition’s comprehensive and understandable medical information. Designed for the iPhone & iPod touch Designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod touch, the application is essential for everyone who needs to communicate effectively with a healthcare professional, understand a medical condition or learn more about medical terms, procedures and tests. > The Mobile Campus > Higher Education In The > iP. MORE >>

Learning Digitally.org Blog home archives about ← Hitch – Device for transferring files Student-generated Content → Mobile Learning in Education – What to Consider February 9th, 2010 | Mobile Learning In the January 28, 2010 issue of Academic Impressions, the article “ Considering Mobile Learning for Your Institution &# discusses what institutions should consider when determining if they want to get involved in mobile learning. The first question to ask is “will the learners be consumers of content, producers of content, or both?&# MORE >>

Login Get your own Posterous » Living in the 4th Screen Exploring the use of mobile technology in education and life Employment: I am an assistant principal at a public high school. have worked in education for about 25 years. My first 17 years in education were spent as a mathematics and computer science teacher. Faculty Development – Who is responsible for training and supporting faculty in the appropriate use of mobile devices in the educational process? The implications of this research for mobile technology and for education are mind blowing. MORE >>

New online book on mobile learning -available for free download by Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney and Brian Ferry (editors), New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, 2009, 138p. This online book describes a study, funded by Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC), that involved teachers in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong implementing innovative teaching approaches to support mobile learning. MORE >>

My reason was that while mobile learning (or mLearning) had finally started to catch on amongst educators, we are often a conservative lot, and I felt there was much more yet to be done – such as using the mLearning as a basis to start preparing for the real show – what learning would have to look like in a world of totally universal, ubiquitous computing. What started first as individual teachers spending their own money on an iPod touch for their classroom has spread to school-wide deployments of 30 or even up to 200 iPod touch’s. MORE >>