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    • m-learning for work based apprentices:- A report on trials undertaken to establish learning portfolios 

      Chan, Selena (2007-10-05)
      This paper reports on ongoing work that is being completed on developing a mlearning delivery package for apprentice bakers. These include: - a report on trials of formative assessment questions using the mass text ...
    • Mobile learning – a new paradigm shift in distance education? 

      Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Brown, Tom; Delport, Rhena (2007-10-18)
      During recent years, many distance teaching as well as residential institutions have started to experiment with mobile learning through pilot projects as part of their e-learning and technology enhanced learning environments. ...
    • Mobile Technology in Facilitating Learning Goals 

      MacCallum, Kathryn; Kinshuk (2007-10-17)
      Mobile and wireless computing technologies have influenced how people interact with each other. For the first time, mobile technology and student lifestyle choices are converging to allow mobile learning (m-learning) to ...
    • Mobile Usability in Educational Contexts: What Have We Learnt? 

      Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes (2007-10-17)
      The majority of mobile learning activity continues to take place on devices that were not designed with educational applications in mind, and usability issues are often reported. The paper reflects on progress in approaches ...
    • MobilED – A Mobile Tools and Services Platform for Formal and Informal Learning 

      Ford, Merryl; Leinonen, Teemu (2007-10-09)
      The MobilED initiative is aimed at designing teaching and learning environments that are meaningfully enhanced with mobile technologies and services. The MobilED deliverables are to develop a set of scenarios and ...
    • MOTEL: Designing a virtual geo-tagging framework for use in higher education 

      Baggetun, Rune; Wasson, Barbara (2007-10-05)
      Higher Education students are highly mobile; they move between learning venues such as lecture halls, the field, labs, home, and excursions. In order to understand how students used technology to support them in their ...
    • ‘My grandfather is dead’: narratives of culture and curriculum 

      Hartnell-Young, Elizabeth; Vetere, Frank (2007-10-09)
      Curriculum, the term used to denote a course of study, has been understood in recent years as a documented program developed by experts and managed by an education authority. In many cases this has resulted in a focus on ...
    • Personal Digital Assistants – teachers prefer the personal 

      Wishart, Jocelyn M. (2007-10-18)
      This paper will present the results of a small-scale project, funded by the UK Teacher Development Agency, where 13 teachers and 3 trainee teachers in one secondary school science department were given handhelds (Personal ...
    • Personalized Profiling and Self-Organization as strategies for the formation and support 

      Nalder, Glenda; Dallas, Alexis (2007-10-17)
      Mobile and wireless technologies are globally aware therefore so to do institutions have to think globally. By this is meant not simply making learning objects available to international students, but inventing ways to ...
    • A perspective in lifelong learning: m-learning for TT management training 

      Diamantini, Davide; Pieri, Michelle (2007-10-05)
      This paper focuses on an experience of blended learning (blended e-learning and blended m-learning). This experience is ongoing at present for the training of managers of Technological Transfer (TT), who work in an Italian ...
    • The Place And Role Of Em-learning In Multi-mode Delivery Of Educator Training In South Africa 

      Steyn, Hennie J.; Potgieter, F.J.; Basson, R.; Roeloffse, J.; Steyn, P.; Steyn, N. (2007-10-18)
      In any country in the world, the business and responsibility of, as well as the challenge to the education fraternity are to provide quality education to all. Therefore, quality teaching and learning should be provided to ...
    • Positive Motion, Inc. 

      Wen, James (2007-10-18)
      The simplicity of flashcards makes them ideally suited for memorizing word lists on small, mobile devices but flashcards are not well suited to subjects that require more sophisticated organizational structure. Legal ...
    • Practitioners as Innovators: Emergent Practice in Personal Mobile Teaching, Learning, Work and Leisure 

      Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Pettit, John (2007-10-17)
      Mobile devices have become commonplace tools serving a wide array of purposes that may include teaching and learning alongside work and leisure, in both formal and informal settings. The project reported on in this paper ...
    • Reflections on Success: A retrospective of the mLearn conference series 2002-2005 

      Naismith, Laura; Corlett, Dan (2007-10-17)
      mLearn is now in its fifth year. Although mobile learning has a much longer history, the inauguration of a conference for learning in the mobile age marked an important point in its development. This paper takes a ...
    • Researching Mobile Learning With College Tutors – Operational Issues, Lessons Learned And Findings 

      Savill-Smith, Carol; Attewell, Jill (2007-10-18)
      Many educators are becoming interested in mobile learning as an alternative, or supplementary, way of delivering aspects of teaching and learning, or as a conduit to lead ‘disengaged’ youth to further learning, or as a ...
    • An SMS Based Querying System for Mobile Learning 

      Wen, Dunwei; Xiong, Jiangqiang; Ally, Mohamed; Lin, Fuhua (Oscar) (2007-10-05)
      Mobile phone is the most widely used mobile device. Every mobile phone user can conveniently communicate with each other through SMS (Short Message Service) text messages at very low price. It is so commonly used that, in ...
    • Students on the fly: Preliminary data from a year‐long 

      Missimer, Connie; Steele, Nelle; Pruitt, John; Lauzon, Julie (2007-10-17)
      As part of an ongoing, year‐long ethnographic study on laptop adoption and usage, selected families, young professionals, and students in Tempe Arizona and the Puget Sound area in Washington State have been given some form ...
    • Supporting ubiquitous language learning with RFID tags 

      Ogata, Hiroaki; Yin, Chengjiu; Liu, Yuqin; El-Bishouty, Moushir M.; Yano, Yoneo (2007-10-18)
      Ubiquitous computing will help in the organization and mediation of social interactions wherever and whenever these situations might occur. With those technologies, learning environment can be embedded in real daily life. ...
    • Terra Incognita 4-The European Adventure: a collaborative, affective-aware, SMS and web-based learning system 

      Benţa, Kuderna-Iulian; Szakáts, István; Szakáts, Rariţa (2007-10-05)
      In this paper we present a hybrid SMS and web-based game-like learning system. We designed and practically proofed the SMS and web-based four tier system. Our main goal was to provide a community information service that ...
    • Ubiquity and Reusability 

      Nix, Judy; Ericsson Education (2007-10-18)
      Ubiquity and reusability are key factors in driving the deployment of content. Up to now these elements have been challenges within mobile learning. However, with the advent of metadata structures, new technologies and ...


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