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Using Mobile Devices as Research Tools
Because traditional eLearning has mostly been about presentations and activities designed by expert instructors, distributed to learners via desktop and laptop screens, we tend to forget the power of the [...]
Proceedings available (Free!) – 10th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning
Although I sometimes refer to myself as a “recovering academic,” the truth is that I value both the theoretical and the practical sides of mobile learning. I attended the 8th [...]
Social Media and Mobile Use Policies
David Strom, business channels editor for ReadWriteWeb (RWW) has written two thoughtful posts on the issue of social media and mobile devices in the workplace. In his most recent post [...]
Mobile Devices in the Classroom: is this really mobile learning?
In my first post for this blog, on Aug. 8th, I outlined how the definition of mobile learning has changed over the last 15 years or so. We have moved [...]
Book Review: Work-Based Mobile Learning: concepts and cases
Book Review: Pachler, N., Pimmer, C., and Seipold, J. (2011). Work Based Mobile Learning: concepts and cases. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.
Professor Norbert Pachler at the Institute of Education, University of [...]
Myths about iOS products
On his blog, Learning in Hand, teacher and technology specialist Tony Vincent lists a number of common myths about Apple mobile products such as iPads, iPhones, and iPods. (A similar list [...]
Mobile Learning Management Systems: a spectrum of choices
Computer-based learning management systems have been available since the 1960s, but really took off in the late 1990s and early 2000s. With the speed of change that is happening in [...]
From Semantic Search to Social Search using Mobile Devices
Starting about 1970, the Internet was built on a base of text; most early communications between computers were text messages or documents. Then, in 1992, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World [...]
Can Performance Support be a form of Mobile Learning? (Yes!)
One of the most frequent themes that comes through in discussions of mobile learning in the conference sessions and workshops that I do is a debate about whether “performance support” [...]
Studies Show: Recent Research on Mobile Learning
Every day around the world, thousands of research studies are produced on every conceivable subject. So, when I checked out the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) recently, that there were [...]
