Mobile Learning. Awards Mobile Learning is the winner of the 2010 Charles A. Wedemeyer Award, provided by the University Professional & Continuing Education Association. Click here for more information on their Community of Practice Awards program. About the Book This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. About the Editor Mohamed Ally is a Professor in the Centre for Distance Education at Athabasca University, where he teaches and researches the educational uses of mobile technology, mobile libraries, and workplace learning. Download the eBook Copyright: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 CA). Download the entire book Select a Chapter DownloadFRONT MATTER DownloadTABLE OF CONTENTS DownloadFOREWORD DownloadCONTRIBUTING AUTHORS Download INTRODUCTION PART ONE: Advances in Mobile Learning DownloadChapter 1Current State of Mobile LearningJohn Traxler PART TWO: Research on Mobile Learning DownloadConclusion.
Pros and Cons of Elearning | MBAs Portal. Has The mLearning Moment Arrived? Posted by MarkWeingarten on Feb 10, 2011 The field of mLearning, or learning facilitated by mobile devices, has been generating growing interest in recent years and months. Outspoken advocates of mLearning, such as the authors of a report recently released by GSMA Development Fund , assert that the increasing ubiquity of mobile phone penetration (especially in the developing world) has the potential to reach more students than ever before.
Critics, such as Kentaro Toyama, reply that digital content (mobile or otherwise) does little to improve the quality of education and that the hype surrounding it is unwarranted. One opinion, shared by skeptics and advocates alike, is that "Technology is only a tool: no technology can fix a bad educational philosophy or compensate for bad practice. In fact, if we are going in the wrong direction, technology will get us there faster. It is clear that a degree of skepticism around mLearning is warranted. Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense. iPods in Education Part 12: Customized Learning Using Apps. There has been a gap of several months since I last shared ideas in the form of a blog post on the topic of using iPods in Education.
While the introduction of the iPhone and the iPod Touch has changed the rules in how handheld devices can be used in education, this series has laid dormant as I’ve been in the process of catching up with the technology. I have always been a firm believer that one cannot comment on the techology until one actually uses the technology. As I did not own neither an iPod Touch nor an iPhone, I didn’t feel confident that I could confidently discuss the benefits of using such devices in education. That is, until now. Approximately one week ago, I activated and began using an iPhone 3G S and feel that while not yet an expert, I can now begin discussing intelligently how such interactive mobile devices can be used to help students learn. In recent years, attitudes in the education system have begun to change.
This is where the iPod Touch comes in. Like this: VOXY :: Learn a language from life. Learn English with my4n-news - 4n Media Group.