Browsing mLearn 2006 by Issue Date
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Using Games, Mobile and Wireless Environments to Construct Meaningful and Motivating LearningTwo Cases: Adventure in the Castle of Oulu (1651) and Virtual Snellman (1822)
(2007-10-17)The traditional notion of a learning environment has expanded to cover virtual spaces. Today, these virtual learning environments are often network-based and readily wireless accessible to a certain group of students. ... -
Students on the fly: Preliminary data from a year‐long
(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 ... -
Reflections on Success: A retrospective of the mLearn conference series 2002-2005
(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 ... -
Using mobile technologies for multimedia tours in a traditional museum setting
(2007-10-17)Mobile technology was used to deliver learner-centred experiences to visitors at a geology museum without compromising the museum’s aesthetic appeal. Two Flash-based multimedia tours were developed for the Hypertag Magus ... -
Personalized Profiling and Self-Organization as strategies for the formation and support
(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 ... -
Ubiquity and Reusability
(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 ... -
Supporting ubiquitous language learning with RFID tags
(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. ... -
Using Mobile Learning to Enhance the Quality of Nursing Practice Education
(2007-10-18)The purpose of this paper is to review the research literature pertaining to the use of mobile devices in Nursing Education and assess the potential of mobile learning (m-learning) for Nursing practice education experiences ... -
From M-learning pilot activity to embedded practice: using formative evaluation to inform scaled-up implementation
(2007-10-18)This paper describes the implementation of a mobile learning strategy centred on the use of PDAs by learners in the 9-14 age range having 24/7 access. It is presented from two perspectives. The first is from the practical ... -
Researching Mobile Learning With College Tutors – Operational Issues, Lessons Learned And Findings
(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 ... -
A Corporate View of Mobile Learning
(2007-10-18)In the corporate training environment, acquisition of new skills by employees through training is critically important. This obviously implies that practice-based training programs that enable employees to internalize, ... -
The Place And Role Of Em-learning In Multi-mode Delivery Of Educator Training In South Africa
(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.
(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 ... -
Personal Digital Assistants – teachers prefer the personal
(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 ... -
Using Participatory Simulation Support Learning Algorithms
(2007-10-18)During learning computer science theory, it is essential to learn sorting algorithms, but it is not easy to understand the concept of the different sorting algorithms. This paper describes a system called PLASPS (PDA-based ... -
Mobile learning – a new paradigm shift in distance education?
(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. ...