Choosing the best (smart)phone or tablet for mobile learning can be quite a challenge. The amount of features you want to use will also allow you to purchase a low or high cost smartphone or mobile device. Let's say you want to explore mobile learning, these are some of your options. Smartphones First of all if you are a tech savvy person you could go for a less expensive device which has all the options of the iPhone and more, for the iPhone costs a lot, yet is similar to many other mobile phones that are cheaper. What mobile operating system to choose? MORE >>

It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to conclude that Mobile computing in the hottest trend in technology since electricity was invented. With this fact in mind, I asked myself this question – are my course materials mobile-friendly? Can my students easily get the materials in my course onto their mobile device be it an iPad , iPhone , iPod Touch , Android Smartphone , Sony eBook Reader , Amazon Kindle , or Barnes & Noble Nook , etc. mobile ebook readers convertWell, I was a bit embarrassed by my answer. My answer was ‘sort-of’. So I decided to try something new. MORE >>

Whereas you use mobile devices many times a day for quick access. As Judy Brown defines a mobile device, it’s small enough to fit in your pocket, has a battery to last all day, and you really know it. The smaller screen of a mobile device invites it closer, as does the small keyboard, using thumbs instead of the whole hand. This seems to give me a handle on thinking about the differences between tablets and smartphones & PDAs (I think the iPod touch is a great device, say for kids in schools). mobileOf course, smaller tablets may bridge the gap. MORE >>

That’s how I described the status of mobile learning in an article  in eLearn magazine ten months ago. My point then was that mobile offers immense potential for learning and support but that it is not yet making much of a difference in the enterprise. Performance support and mobile devices only rarely appeared in the organizational playbook they described. As we look at more recent data, we find an uptick for performance support, in general, but not yet for mobile delivery. wanted to know more about what executives in learning units are thinking about mobile. Through MORE >>

Some of our volunteer testers of the iPhone/iPod/Moodle web-application have indicated that they struggled a bit with having to login again each time they went out of the application. The team has enabled easy access by offering a 'home button' that can be put on your iPhone/iPod screen and with which you can simply login with one click. Tags: iphone moodle mobile ITM mobile learning applications Hope this helps! MORE >>