The launch could include: o An exciting program overview including goals and expectations o An overview of acceptable use, educational value, and expectations o Educational cell phone activities that introduce students to ways they can begin using their phones to support learning Launch considerations o Consider integrating the phones use as an instructional tool outside the school day in year one. Online/On demand Support o Work with students to video tape and post tutorials online. No Future Left Behind : Peggy Sheehy's Student Vid. Almost Anything! Facebook me! MORE >>

Despite all these technological improvements, I want to highlight another development that I consider to be even more important – that being the partnering and training focus that OLPC Australia has developed to support its XO deployments, particularly the upcoming ‘One Education’ expansion that could see 50,000 XOs in student hands here by end of 2014. The challenge will be for OLPC to maintain this sense of partnership so that that their program can reach the current 50,000, and future 300,000 goals it has set. Preview: XO-4 Duo hybrid laptop/tablet from OLPC Australia. MORE >>

Can you start with a mobile software development platform that supports all of your mobile applicationneeds , or will each mobile application be a separate IT project and use different development technologies and infrastructures (e.g. Do you have an in-house software development capability, budget and helpdesk infrastructure to enable you to develop and support your own mobile application(s)? Will you be supporting just one mobile device, or many different kinds and sizes? What mobile device operating system(s) will you be supporting? How will you do this? week ago. MORE >>

How will they be supported? Faculty Development – Who is responsible for training and supporting faculty in the appropriate use of mobile devices in the educational process? Technology pundit, Robert Scoble , recently wrote a post titled, "Why if you miss Siri you'll miss the future of the web." The second reason they give for supporting their hypothesis is that: Over the next five years, Internet connected mobile computing devices will drop dramatically in price—and increase in functionality. have worked in education for about 25 years. MORE >>

This paper discusses the happenings in the field of mobile learning and discusses the future of ‘m-learning’. The factors that should be considered while choosing a mobile phone device for e-learning are operating system (Symbian, Linux, Windows Mobile, Apple, Android, RIM Blackberry, Palm), internet accessibility, screen-size, user interface, keyboard, memory, PC synchronization and security. Some browsers will resize the fonts, some support zooming, some don’t respect style sheets; some have a portrait layout, etc. Tags: future research What is m-learning? MORE >>