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EXPLORING THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF M-LEARNING WITHIN AN INTERNATIONAL DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAMME
(2007-10-09)
Imagine you are a student, studying as a postgraduate on a distance learning Masters course, offered by a UK institution. You are based in a developing country in Africa, employed full time, and due to the nature of your ...
m-learning for work based apprentices:- A report on trials undertaken to establish learning portfolios
(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 ...
Experienced young PDA users set their own standards for m-learning
(2007-10-09)
“Mr Flynn, I am getting better and better at using this PDA. Am I as good as you now?”
The Learning2go mobile learning project in Wolverhampton has involved over 1000 learners in 18 learning establishments across ...
Developming multimedia mLearning for mobiles
(2007-10-05)
This short paper presents a prototype multimedia learning object that has been developed for the mobile phone. It outlines the rationale for this work and then discusses the issues raised and the design solutions that ...
Authoring design patterns for user & device dependant adaptive data presentation
(2007-10-05)
In 2000 the iSign project started as a virtual web-based laboratory for students of study program electrical engineering. Continuous development in the last years led to a heterogeneous learning environment offering learning ...
‘My grandfather is dead’: narratives of culture and curriculum
(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 ...
Where is the “m” in Skills for Life?
(2007-10-09)
There are changes afoot in the world of Skills for Life. The post-Moser “golden era” in which the teaching of literacy and numeracy moved from the shadows into the spotlight may be about to shift focus. Is there still 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 ...
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 ...
An Audio-Based Approach to Mobile Learning of Japanese Kanji Characters
(2007-10-17)
We describe the design and implementation of an audio-based computer system for mobile, non-visual learning of the meaning and writing of "kanji" characters: the thousands of multi-stroke Chinese characters used in the ...