Open Educational Resources(OER) and mobile learning are both equalizers to eliminate education opportunity gap. Today mobile technologies are often common even in areas where schools, books and computers are scarce. As the price of mobile phone ownership continues to decline, more and more people, including those in extremely impoverished areas, are likely to own and know how to use a... Read More ›

Today, The Brookings Institution just released a paper in conjunction with the event Mobile Learning: Transforming Education and Engaging Students and Teachers hosted by the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings at the same day. Mobile Learning: Transforming Education, Engaging Students, and Improving Outcomes Mobile learning represents a way to address a number of our educational problems. Devices such as... Read More ›

This is a reminder for the upcoming online session and Twitter meet-up : OER and Mobile Learning. Course module goes live : 9:30 AM, CST, Sep. 20, 2013 (check out your time zone) Twitter meet-up : 10:30 ~ 11:30 AM, CST, Sep. 20, 2013 (check out your time zone) This is the last session of the... Read More ›

This is the last session of the OER MOOC, we hope you will join us and participate in the discussion. The course module is a web package, participants don’t need to sign up or login to any system. Just visit the permanent URL as below and you are good to go. You only need a Twitter... Read More ›

Being a leader in providing mobile technologies for business or education, Qualcomm published an article explores how the Internet and mobile broadband technologies that are transforming the work of business professionals may be applied to the work of teachers and students in K‐20 schooling, with similarly transformative outcomes. Over the past decade, trends in education have increasingly begun... Read More ›

By Santosh Bhaskar K OER (Open Educational Resources) are freely accessible, usually openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, educational assessment and research purposes i.e. They include learning content (course materials), tools (software to create and manage open learning content) and licenses. OER lowers the cost of educational materials, develops innovative content and... Read More ›

The initial Merrill Lynch pilot, entitled GoLearn, involved offering three mandated courses both via MLU (Merrill Lynch University) and via the BlackBerry in 2007. GoLearn is the first custom, firm-wide mobile application since e-mail in the financial services industry. This case study was listed on this example page of Mobile Learning Handbook. And the original summary... Read More ›

Bringing Remote Labs and Mobile Learning together D. May, C. Terkowsky, T. Haertel and C. Pleul, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany Published on  International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) Abstract Within (remote) laboratories in Engineering Education students have the chance to do own experiments and by that gain own experiences in their learning processes. Apart from technical questions, one... Read More ›

What Do These New Technologies Mean to Mobile Learning? (#mlearning) How will you put them in mobile learning scenarios? Are you interested to have them involved in your instructional design or inside classrooms?  Tweet your idea with #mlearning. Depth-Sensing Cameras Head to Mobile Devices The first mobile depth-sensing technology to hit the market is likely... Read More ›

MOODLE is a free open-source learning management system (LMS) that teachers can use to develop online courses, or to enhance their face-to-face classes with online components. These days, learners will access Moodle from a variety of devices, not just a Desktop computer. Moodle Mobile App is a free App available on iOS and Android devices for Moodle... Read More ›

According to a nationally representative survey of 1,000 adults ages 18+ by Pew Internet. 54% of adult internet users post original photos or videos online that they themselves have created. 47% of adult internet users take photos or videos that they have found online and repost them on sites designed for sharing images with many people. The survey... Read More ›

Secrets of mlearning failures: confronting reality, from Research in Learning Technology Thomas Cochrane Centre for Teaching and Learning, Auckland University of Teaching, Auckland, NZ Having implemented and evaluated over 35 mlearning projects in a variety of contexts in higher education over the past 6 years the researcher is ready to share the untold secret: not all mlearning... Read More ›

An Alternate Reality Game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and uses transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by participants’ ideas or actions. The form is defined by intense player involvement with a story that takes place in real-time and evolves according to participants’ responses. Subsequently, it is shaped... Read More ›

Mobile learning tools open up a wide world of teaching and learning possibilities. The Mobile Scenarios for K12 app empowers you to take the first step.  Select and read detailed stories spanning grade levels and subject areas that will inspire you with ideas and specific tools to integrate technology into your classroom to  improve teaching... Read More ›

This briefing is drawn from "Increasing Access through Mobile Learning" (published by Commonwealth of Learning and Athabasca University, 2014) Ch. 8 Open Formats for Mobile Learning  -  Geoff Stead The U.S. government had sponsored a two-year technology research project to explore the technical challenges involved in deploying mLearning as a core element of its mainstream eLearning delivery. This chapter... Read More ›

(This is the 16th article of the series of learning design tips from dominKnow KnowledgeBase) Developing a good online course requires a considerable amount of planning. This is a development process that works very well when designing courses with Claro. You will notice that the course framework is put up in Claro as early as possible,... Read More ›

From Cj’s Instructional Systems Design blog, this nice infographic gives an overview of the whole picture of instructional design. Find more education infographics on e-Learning Infographics So, what are the differences between mobile learning and other types of technology-enhanced learning? Christian Glahn introduces "Mobile Learning Operating Systems" including learning management and learning orchestration system in... Read More ›

We all recognize the importance of tracking data in mobile learning, no matter learners consume the mobile learning content online or offline, those data shall be synced back to LMS whenever the internet connection is available. Although there is a new standard - Experience API (xAPI) aiming to bring tracking to the next level, but... Read More ›

What’s mobile learning? (mLearning) An insight for this question: "That which is mobile is not knowledge or information, but is the individual’s habitus."(Kress, Pachler) Habitus: a structure of the mind characterized by a set of acquired schemata, sensibilities, dispositions and taste. This presentation from Michael Gallagher discusses using mobile technology for field learning activities and... Read More ›

The growing trend towards mobile computing using the power of networks has opened the door for learners and teachers to access the world’s knowledge from almost anywhere, at anytime. The Internet is the world’s intellectual commons and open educational resources(OER) renders this knowledge accessible to all. The UNESCO Chair in OER initiative - Rory McGreal - has... Read More ›

by Baiyun Chen and Aimee Denoyelles, instructional designers at the University of Central Florida Key Takeaways A university-wide survey on students’ mobile learning practices showed that ownership of mobile devices is high among students and that tablets are the most popular devices for academic purposes. The survey also found that mobile learning typically occurs outside the classroom, with only limited guidance from instructors. To improve mobile... Read More ›

The mobile learning toolkit is developed by International Labor Organization (ILO) of the United Nations. It is the result of research into mobile phone use and user needs within the African context, however it has been developed for use in all developing contexts. It is intended as a "trainer’s toolkit" that can help deliver a wide range... Read More ›

Learning Layers is a large-scale research project co-funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme.The consortium consists of 17 institutions from 7 different countries. It aims to develop technologies that support informal learning in the workplace. The concepts and technologies we develop help to bridge the gap between scaling and adaptation to personal needs. By building... Read More ›

The Mobile Learning Curriculum Framework is a framework that is in a state of perpetual beta. The Framework is build in order to enable all educational institutes and schools to implement mobile learning in their existing or future curriculum. The MLCF is open science, so open to all. In the wake of a telecommunications landscape that... Read More ›