Dial M for Learning: mLearning ideas

I’m not sure how I stumbled across this site, but it has a long list of web links that you might find useful. Everything from Academic Integrity to Writing Learning Objectives. I haven’t checked them all out so I can’t vouch for everything listed – a few were a little dated, but most I looked at were useful and, of course, led me to other interesting places.

See Faculty Development Associates.

You can view the following presentations online:

• Charles Jennings, Reuters: The Business Imperative to Take Learning to the Workforce
• Gordon Bull, Vodafone: Gordon highlights some of the ways mobile technology will be used in the future as part of our daily lives and explore the implications for learning
• Wolfram Spoenlein, Motorola: Intelligent Learning: Matching Technology with Real Customer Needs
• Donald Clark, Epic Co-Founder and Former CEO: Simulation Environments for Learning
• Fabrizio Cardinali, Giunti Labs: The Future is Here, It’s Just Not Equally Distributed…
• Stephen Clee, Datmedia: Technology Showcase: Datpresenter for Streaming Video to Mobile
• Jonathan Shaw, 7 City Learning: Technology Showcase: Interactive ’smart’ Email to Mobiles for Performance Support
• Jonathon Levy: The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be: Why The Next Generation of Online Learning Resets Everything to Zero!
• Dick Davies, Ambient Performance: Technology Showcase: Forterra Systems Immersive 3D Virtual World for Performance Rehearsal
• Nigel Paine, BBC: Developing for Readiness: BBC success with Wikis, Blogs & Podcasting
• Dr. Gilly Salmon, University of Leicester: Technology Showcase: Profcasting – Podcasting Research – what are students find of value?
• Expert Panel: Implementation, Implementation advice from expert practitioners
• Ron Edwards, Ambient Performance: Realizing the Performance Potential

Dates & information for Moving Learning 2007 are available.

This publication from JISC is a good practice guide to embedding mobile and wireless technologies into everyday practice. It’s aimed at practitioners and managers in further and higher education and adult and community learning.

‘Innovative Practice with e-Learning’ identifies challenges and benefits relating to the use of six commonly found mobile devices and reflects the findings of reports commissioned through the e-Learning and Innovation strand. Ten new case studies are also included to illustrate the use and the impact of these new technologies from three perspectives: those of the learner, the practitioner and the institution.

You can download the publication free of charge.

A fabulous series of articles from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Read an abstract and then downlaod a PDF which provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes:

• What it is
• How it works
• Where it is going
• Why it matters to teaching and learning

Covered so far:

1. Virtual Worlds
2. Google Jockeying
3. Remote Instrumentation
4. Screencasting
5. Virtual Meetings
6. Grid Computing
7. Collaborative Editing
8. Instant Messaging
9. Augmented Reality
10. Blogs
11. Video Blogging
12. Wikis
13. Podcasting
14. Clickers
15. Social Bookmarking

Now that should keep you busy for a while.

Further extending its curricular reach to the iPod generation, the University of California, Berkeley, recently announced “Berkeley on iTunes U“, a free service that makes video and audio recordings of a growing number of course lectures available both on and off campus through Apple Computer’s iTunes Music Store.

“Berkeley on iTunes U” is now available and is open to the public as well as to all UC Berkeley students. Read more.

The 4th World Conference on Mobile Learning, mLearn 2005, was held in Cape Town, South Africa from 25 to 28 October 2005.

Abstracts & papers from the conference are available for download in PDF.

mLearn 2006 will be held in Banff, Canada 22-25 October.

FreewarePalm has lots of free, downloadable programs for your Palm. You could spend a month looking for things, but a quick look at recently added programs in the Educational section includes the following, which will give you an idea of the type of stuff that’s there.

AuSlang v1.2
A must-have if you’re reading this blog & you’re not an Aussie!! This is a collection of Australian sayings for anyone wanting to visit Australia, knows Australians, or Aussies needing to brush up their Slang. (I haven’t tested it for accuracy yet!)

Spanish Verbs
Regular Spanish regular verbs and their conjugations.

Species Inventory v6.3.3
The Species Inventory application assists with creating, sharing, and managing sighting logs that are formatted as tab delimited text so they easily import to a spreadsheet application such as OpenOffice Calc or Microsoft Excel.

There are a lot of annoying banners & ads – but that’s what you have to put up with to get free stuff Maybe there’s something useful there for your mLearning students.