Social Media Doesn’t Threaten Literacy! rara.ch: Ancient Books, Public Domain and Moral Barriers The Challenge for Our Schools: Thomas Friedman and Education Social Networking and the Secondary Student Thomas H. Buzz Threat of Lawsuits on Social Networking Sites Thoughts on ‘Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time!’ Social Media Doesn’t Threaten Literacy! Thoughts on ‘Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time!’ List of ETC Articles Stefanie Panke Editor, Social Software in Educ. Do You Speak Livemocha? MORE >>

Nine Hundred Health and Social Care students from the north of England are taking part in this project. The assessors will be able to log into a secure area, which will be connected to the university’s virtual learning environment teaching and business systems, to record and store the student’s assessments and results. billion inhabitants will have mobile phones by the end of the year 2008. Mobile learning or m-learning is touted as being the next big thing in e-learning. More the mobile phone users, bigger the e-learning market. billion by 2010 worldwide. 2005a). MORE >>

Since the majority of students both at secondary schools and universities have a mobile phone at hand most of the time, Mobile Learning (M-learning) could be a new tool for assisting learning in future. Learning is a fundamental cognitive process of mental and social change over an entire lifetime. Presently, the methodology and the pattern of learning are changing– especially in the universities. Telecommunications is merging with mass media resulting into a compact solution for all. Follow me on Twitter RSS Feeds Home About MoSo Tech! No trackbacks yet. MORE >>

Current Australian telecommunications industry statistics are that over 8 million mobile phone handsets were sold in Australia in 2005 , 98% of Australia’s population has mobile phone coverage , and around 20 million Australians (95%) own a mobile phone , with penetration among young people even higher. Even if a basic $30 pre-paid SIM card was charged to a student as a materials fee, it is a pittance compared with the cost of university course fees and textbooks. The issues I’m most commonly asked about are generally associated with either the cost of hardware (e.g. MORE >>

Sanyal School of Telecommunications, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur; and serving as Director, Zee Telefilms and Sonata Software. Can connectivity be expected to deliver quickly in areas relating to social development where other conventional methods have not been too effective? Let the Universal Service Obligation (USO) Fund be used for creating the long-haul, short-haul, backhaul network in addition to the subsidies provided for just creating towers etc. Entertainment Agri. BK) Syngal , former Chairman and Managing Director of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL). MORE >>