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m-Learning: New Resources & Update

Some recent reports and updates from the mobile learning space:

mLearnopedia: Mobile Learning Resource

Handheld Computers in Education

Introduction to Flash Lite by Macromedia, click here for Flash version and click here for non-Flash version.

Full Papers from MLEARN 2005

Conference podcasts from MLEARN 2005

A Book of Papers from MLEARN 2004

Literature Review in Mobile Technologies & Learning, A Report for NESTA Futurelab

Innovative Practice with e-Learning: ‘Innovative Practice with e-Learning’ is a good practice guide to embedding mobile and wireless technologies into everyday practice which is aimed at practitioners and managers in further and higher education and adult and community learning. This publication builds on the case study approach adopted in ‘Effective Practice with e-Learning’ to explore ways in which mobile and wireless technologies have become established in post-16 and higher education institutions.

m-Learning by Adam Burt: This site will give you a overview on how to repurpose current video work. This can be achieved on Apple's popular iApp's & Pro applications, turning existing content into rich m-learning content. That can then be streamed over the internet to your compatible phone.

Social Networking + Mobile Gaming = :)

Here is an interesting mash up. Take social networking, add in mobile gaming and you have Social Mobile Gaming or would it be Mobile Social Gaming..?! The buzz-words can be worked out later, for now read this interview with Trip Hawkins (Legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur, founder of Electronic Arts and now owner of Digital Chocolate).

In that interview Trip lays out his latest vision of bringing cheer to people isolated by an overdose of tech in their lives by getting them to connect with other people through mobile gaming.

Alternately, imagine if the same thing were applied to mobile learning. Ron Edwards of Ambient Connection says, "Connecting people to each other is often more valuable than just delivering content to them and is a key aspect of the advice I often give to organizations pursuing mobile learning to strategize how it can/should be part of the mix. This holds true when discussing the application of "serious" mobile games to address corporate communication and culture change initiatives."