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MOTEL: Designing a virtual geo-tagging framework for use in higher education
(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 ... -
Terra Incognita 4-The European Adventure: a collaborative, affective-aware, SMS and web-based learning system
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Coordinating Networked Learning Activities with a General-Purpose Interface
(2007-10-05)Classrooms equipped with wirelessly networked tablets and handhelds can engage students in powerful collaborative learning activities that are otherwise impractical or impossible. However, the system must fulfill certain ... -
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 ... -
Informal Learning Evidence in Online Communities of Mobile Device Enthusiasts
(2007-10-05)This paper describes a study that investigated the informal learning practices of enthusiastic mobile device owners. Informal learning is far more widespread than is often realised. Livingston (2000) pointed out that ... -
Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Reusable Learning Objects
(2007-10-05)Our ongoing work at London Metropolitan University investigates effective ways to design learning environments that add mobile learning into blended higher education modules. Our approach is one of evolutionary, iterative ... -
A perspective in lifelong learning: m-learning for TT management training
(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 ... -
An SMS Based Querying System for Mobile Learning
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
MobilED – A Mobile Tools and Services Platform for Formal and Informal Learning
(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 ... -
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 ... -
‘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 ... -
Is Learning Really a Phone Call Away? Knowledge Transfer in Mobile Learning
(2007-10-17)Mobile learning can positively contribute to the development of learning communities by providing communication options that span contexts and locations, are available whenever, and are used virtually everywhere (Alexander, ... -
Mobile Usability in Educational Contexts: What Have We Learnt?
(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 ... -
Practitioners as Innovators: Emergent Practice in Personal Mobile Teaching, Learning, Work and Leisure
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Mobile Technology in Facilitating Learning Goals
(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 ...