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Mobile Learning: e-learningnext

ID Reflections

million contribution to Abilene Christian University to support the expansion of the university’s mobile learning initiative. Duke University made headlines when it provided all incoming freshmen with their own 20 -gigabyte iPods. Recently, underscoring its commitment to education, AT&T made a three-year, $1.8

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Why Disruption and eLearning Matter to Higher Education

OpenSesame

As I see online education and distance learning grow in popularity, I have to wonder, did I attend college in a digital dark age? For example, disruption occurred in the music industry when CDs replaced cassette tapes and iPods and mp3s replaced CDs. But how does disruption apply to higher education?

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Why Disruption and eLearning Matter to Higher Education

OpenSesame

As I see online education and distance learning grow in popularity, I have to wonder, did I attend college in a digital dark age? For example, disruption occurred in the music industry when CDs replaced cassette tapes and iPods and mp3s replaced CDs. But how does disruption apply to higher education?

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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

Others in the industry have already used the term "online learning," which basically points to the same concept. The term has always been used to refer to learning using the web or any other electronic medium. Early 2000s: The Dot Com Boom. People in the office or at school has to have a mobile device.

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Arizona News Media discovers New frontiers of web in classrooms

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

There may actually be something to this whole blogging, wiki, podcasting thing ;-) UPDATE: 2/14 Oh and looky here.apparently, according to this newspaper article iPods have become a big part of distance learning. Wow, thanks Star-Telegram. You've certainly scooped your peers on this one.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 4/17/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

ACU uses iPod for distance learning - ipodnn. Abilene Christian University is planning to use video iPods to teach students from afar. In order for podcasting to realize its real potential in education, both perspective and perception will need to be altered.

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Leading Through a Rear-View Mirror

Big Dog, Little Dog

It extends the benefits of dL (distance Learning) by providing the best medium for delivering lectures. See The effectiveness of m-learning in the form of podcast revision lectures in higher education and Turn on your iPod and learn.