I’ve spent an inordinately long time writing a whitepaper on mobile learning trying to expound our thoughts about it and how it might be used in the workplace. If you’re considering mobile learning in any shape or form, I’d suggest you give these a browse. Mobile Learning Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training I’ve ve been doing some research around it and I’ve documented some of the better links I’ve come across.

New online book on mobile learning -available for free download by Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney and Brian Ferry (editors), New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, 2009, 138p. This online book describes a study, funded by Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC), that involved teachers in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong implementing innovative teaching approaches to support mobile learning. ISBN: 978-1-74128-169-9 (online) Available: http://ro.uow.edu.au/newtech/

I’ve been occupied with writing a paper to promote the adoption of mobile learning amongst corporates and enterprises. While trawling through multiple web-links, a pattern of myths about mobile learning emerges. Devices lack in screen and key size and processing power - It’s said quite often that as compared to personal computers, mobile devices lack the large physical interface devices (keyboard, monitor, mouse, printer…) Quite a bit of back and forth about these myths - I’m taking the liberty of listing and describing the five that struck me as odd, and am attempting to debunk them to an extent.

Jane Hart from the Center for Learning & Performance Technologies is still looking for Top 10 Tools for Learning. recommended/yours.html and add your own list. I have added my Top 10 Mobile Tools for Learning and they are: Opera mini browser http://www.operamini.com/ : this browser saves me on download time and size (which comes down to saving money). Find.mobi http://find.mobi/ mobile search engine delight, but unfortunately only in English for the moment. QIK http://qik.com/ real live streaming right from your mobile.

This post is based on the keynote speach of Diane Laurillard who is well-known for her ground breaking work on (mobile) learning methodologies. mLearn keynote Diane Laurillard - Towards a pedagogy-driven account of mobile learning Dianne Laurillard works at the Institute of Education. Her talk is very structured, filled with knowledge and definitely positive on new learning techniques in which the learner It has been a while since I added a blogpost, but it was quite hectic the last two weeks. mLearn08 started which resulted in a lot of extra knowledge.

One recent interesting development in mobile learning has been the creation of mobile interfaces for Online Learning Environments.  Here at the University of Canberra, I’ve been investigating one particular extension for the University’s new Moodle-based learning environment: the free and open source Mobile Learning Engine (MLE) . MLE provides a mobile interface to Moodle It features a custom Java application, capable of running on the majority of contemporary mobile phones. Some testing on different handsets shows

In January 2009 Carly Shuler (a fellow at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center ) came out with a fabulous paper on the benefits of mobile learning entitled: pockets of potential - Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children’s Learning . Although the document focuses on mobile learning for children, you can easily deduct the benefits for all learner groups. Carly Shuler recently graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education with an Ed.M. in Technology, Innovation and Education, where she studied how new media and emerging technologies can be used

Debra Polson is a very enthusiastic speaker. She showed showcases of custom mobile games. Debra motivates students to develop mobile games and they love it! Examples mentioned: Scape (an urban sustainability education tool), Scoot and Milk (the mobile learning kit), I will focus on this last one. MILK : explore, research, design, publish, play, reflect. (the All of the examples are about Fun first, then Educational. the mobile learning kit) It is written in php scripting + database technology.

They don’t realize it, but today’s mobile phones have the computing power of a personal computer from the mid-nineties, while consuming a fraction of the energy and are made at significantly lower cost. In India, the mobile phone has revolutionized communication and India is now one of the fastest growing markets for mobile phone services, with growing usage and increasing penetration. Six in ten people (more than 4 billion individuals) around the world are carrying a powerful computing device in their pockets and purses. According to TRAI, there are 286 million wireless

These are some of the recent books that have appeared on mobile learning: free eBooks on mLearning # 2009: Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training, edited by Mohamed Ally, published at AU press . # 2009: New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education from the University of Wollongong includes faculty development, specific discipline examples and design principles. A nice free open eBook on mLearning build at Graz University of Technology in Austria. mLearning books to buy: # 2009: Mobile