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Its aims are: To present the initial findings of the regional reviews of mobile learning in the Middle East and Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and Latin America, while paying special attention to policies that promote mobile learning as well as effective ways in which mobile technologies can be utilized for teacher support and professional development. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 01/21/12 20:34:47
"From margin to mainstream: mobile technologies transforming lives and libraries"

24-26 September 2012 at the Open University, UK (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 01/21/12 20:21:45
The Mobile Learning Challenge was co-sponsored by IAmLearn and Epic and took place in August-September 2011. The objective was to identify a learning challenge and think of an innovative and yet practical mobile solution for this challenge. Twenty-one submissions were received. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 11/23/11 18:13:15
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posted by Markus Feisst on 11/08/11 12:47:06
Call for Papers

The 7th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2012)

http://wmute2012.info/

Workshop on Mobile/Ubiquitous Learning Strategies and Applications
Conference Date: March 27-30, 2012
Conference Venue: Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 11/01/11 16:46:12
A consortium involving Nokia, the Pearson Foundation and UNSECO have launched an “Education for All” crowdsouring challenge: "an eight-month initiative to elicit suggestions on how mobile communication can help achieve EFA goals.". (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 10/20/11 14:56:49
The Mobile Education project was launched early this year by the GSMA (the trade body for most of the world's mobile phone network operators) with the objective of addressing market barriers and accelerating the adoption of Mobile Education solutions around the world. Key activities include identifying common challenges and developing recommendations to address these, relaying success stories, identifying best practice and promoting the benefits of Mobile Education to a variety of stakeholders.  GSMA are using the term Mobile Education rather than Mobile Learning in order to encompass the use of mobile technologies for education administration and management as well as for teaching and learning. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 09/09/11 12:10:11
The MIT Media Lab has announced the creation of the MIT Center for Mobile Learning, dedicated to transforming education and learning through innovation in mobile computing. The Center's formation is seeded by a gift from Google.
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posted by Markus Feisst on 08/22/11 22:21:24
June 10, 2011: The International E-Learning Association has announced the results of the 2011 International E-Learning Awards, Business Division. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 06/30/11 12:44:58
Open University Worldwide has signed a further three-year contract, worth £3.5m, to continue work on the Department for International Development funded English in Action (EIA) programme in Bangladesh. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 06/02/11 19:36:46
A Council of Europe committee has examined evidence that mobile and wireless technologies have "potentially harmful" effects on humans, and concluded that immediate action was required to protect children. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 05/18/11 11:54:39
The UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) has published a Policy Brief authored by Agnes Kukulska-Hulme. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 05/05/11 19:26:53
The International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn) is seeking proposals to host the 11th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 05/05/11 19:07:20
Edited by John Traxler and Jocelyn Wishart and published in April 2011 by ESCalate, the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Education, University of Bristol, UK. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 04/20/11 11:06:39
The 10th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning will be held in Beijing, 18 - 21 October 2011 (http://mlearn.bnu.edu.cn). The new full paper submission date is 5 May 2011, and the mLearn 2011 paper submission system is now open. Before uploading your paper, you should download the paper template and use it to format your conference papers. Should you experience any difficulties submitting your paper, please email: mlearn@bnu.edu.cn (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 03/21/11 17:14:36
A book edited by Norbert Pachler, Christoph Pimmer and Judith Seipold, entitled Work-Based Mobile Learning: Concepts and Cases, has just been published by Peter Lang. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 02/23/11 12:35:13
The GSMA has announced the winners of the 16th Annual Global Mobile awards, held at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The award for Best Mobile Learning Innovation goes to Urban Planet Mobile’s Urban English initiative in Indonesia, in partnership with PT Telkomsel (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 02/16/11 23:55:06
TechWorld reports that Google will be adding a new category for education-related software to its Apps Marketplace, prompted by what it considers the success of its Apps for Education collaboration and communication suite. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 01/28/11 12:49:08
The topic of the PhD is to research the use of mobile technology for supporting life long learners. LLL have special requirements that focus on the spontaneous informal support for learning activities but also anywhere access to course information, assignments, and peers. Linking the daily activities of LLL and their study is essential for motivation, pace, and relevancy of studying for promotion and career development. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 01/27/11 11:18:11
A special Issue on "One-to-One Learning in the Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Age" has been published by the Journal of Educational Technology and Society, Volume 13, issue 4, 2010. Guest Editors are Chen-Chung Liu and Marcelo Milrad.
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posted by Markus Feisst on 12/21/10 12:26:43
A report, prepared by Doug Belshaw for JISC (the UK agency for technology in higher education), has been published on mobile and wireless technologies for higher education. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 12/15/10 17:19:44
The time for experiments and small scale pilots is coming to an end. This is a key message of a report on emerging markets just published by the GSMA entitled mLearning: A platform for Educational Opportunities at the Base of the Pyramid (November 2010). (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 12/13/10 16:17:40
UNESCO and telecommunications company Nokia have recently signed a partnership to use mobile technologies to further the goals of Education For All. Under the initial three-year agreement, Nokia will contribute between five and ten million dollars which will be invested in three types of projects. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 11/24/10 01:30:57
10th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning
Beijing, China 18 –21 October 2011
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posted by Markus Feisst on 11/20/10 20:18:13
The LWF International Festival of Learning & Technology includes the popular Handheld Learning event, with nearly 2,000 people expected to attend in January 2011 (http://bit.ly/lwf11-ldn). The code for IAMLearn members provides a 20% registration discount saving up to £179 per delegate and is valid until November 30th. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 10/20/10 11:02:57
Call for papers: Special issue of the journal 'Campus Wide Information Systems' on "Mobile Campus Systems". (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 10/09/10 21:38:51
A two-part Special Issue of the International Journal for Mobile and Blended Learning reports the results of a workshop entitled ‘Technology-enhanced learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformation’. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 10/05/10 13:03:23
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A survey shows internet-linked phones are being embraced in the classroom (Nik Peachey, Guardian Weekly, Tuesday 14 September 2010 14.01 BST ) (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 09/16/10 11:00:57
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The Call for research papers for January's Learning Without Frontiers Conference is now online. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 08/25/10 16:20:31
A new report has been published by the LSRI/University of Nottingham that gives an essential overview of research into location-based contextual mobile learning primarily across Europe, edited by Elizabeth Brown. (read)
posted by Markus Feisst on 08/04/10 17:11:11
Towards the Convergence of Pervasive and Contextual computing, Global Social Media and Semantic Web in Technology Enhanced Learning 2nd edition. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 05/06/10 09:06:36
MoLeaP ( www.moleap.net) is a public and free online database for teachers, researchers and other (education) professionals interested in learning and teaching with mobile devices. It is available in English and German. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 04/08/10 23:35:06
Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District is a class action suit brought by Blake J. Robbins and other students of the Lower Merion School District, Pennsylvania, United States, for allegedly infringing the privacy of the students. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 02/23/10 11:10:02
The European MOTILL Project has produced a searchable database of some 50 papers on Mobile Technologies in Lifelong Learning. Each paper has been given an expert review and the database contains a summary and critique of each paper, as well as comments on its lifelong learning context, technology, and implications for policy makers. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 02/14/10 23:08:33
2010 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 01/10/10 20:09:29
Mobile Learning, a Retrospective Outlook: Since its inauguration in 2005, the IADIS Mobile Learning conference series has provided a forum to present, discuss and promote international mobile learning research.
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posted by Rune Baggetun on 12/20/09 13:22:17
The HCTD Research Centre is hosting a free Mobile Learning Research Workshop 25-26th November 2009 at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 11/24/09 20:02:41
There is a 20% discount (£75) at the Handheld Learning conference (http://www.handheldlearning2009.com) to be held in London from 5th-7th October, for IAmLearn members who register online and pay before September 14th. The discount code can be found in the Members area of the IAmLearn website. Registration for Handheld Learning is at http://bit.ly/18mx1H (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 08/31/09 23:12:00
Au Press has recently published “Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education & Training” edited by Mohamed Ally.An online version of this book is available for free. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 08/24/09 10:00:16
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Edited by: Giasemi Vavoula, Norbert Pachler, Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Published by Peter Lang (Oxford). Mobile learning is an emerging field with a developing research agenda and many questions surrounding the suitability of traditional research methods to investigate and evaluate the new learning experiences associated with mobility and support for increasingly informal learning. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 07/23/09 14:32:17
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at ICCE 2009 in Hong Kong, on November 30 or December 1, 2009. The aim is to provide a forum where international participants can share knowledge on the latest developments in CUMTEL and map out directions for future developments and research collaborations. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 06/22/09 20:28:14
The Learning Lab presents an opportunity for Early Researchers in the field of mobile learning to present, discuss and evaluate their own work. The event takes place over 28 hours and will bring together the mobile learning early research community, with methodological contributions from eminent academics in the field who will offer support to participants through structured opportunities to discuss their current research. The event format will maximise engagement and encourage the development of a resilient and vibrant research community by building capacity in an area where currently early researchers are thinly spread and where research methods, practices and philosophies are still evolving rapidly. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 06/06/09 13:01:04
A Handbook for Academics and Practitioners“. The editors, Norbert Pachler, Judith Seipold and Chrsitoph Plummer welcome contributions on theoretical frameworks, concepts as well as latest empirical results in the field of work-based mobile learning. The book will be published by Peter Lang, Oxford in 2010. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 04/23/09 08:55:49
The main goal of the summer school is to bring together PhD students with experienced researchers from the technology enhanced learning community about mobile Learning. This topic will be addressed from a cognitive viewpoint (pedagogy, didactic, education, etc.) and a technological viewpoint (computer-based models, architectures, etc.) (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 03/29/09 14:21:37
In response to the emerging research diversity, ICCE2009 will be a meta-conference - a conference of collocated theme-based conferences. This is the Call for Papers for the theme-based conference, C4: ICCE Conference on CUMTEL, standing for "Classroom, Ubiquitous and Mobile Technologies Enhanced Learning". Some of the best papers from this ICCE conference on CUMTEL will be invited to submit an extended and revised version for a special issue to be published in the journal of Educational Technology and Society (SSCI
indexed) in October 2010. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 03/14/09 09:12:08
The deadline for papers for the mLearn 2009 conference has been extended till March 15, 2009, midnight U.S. Eastern Time. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 02/24/09 23:15:49
Pennsylvania State representatives have introduced a bill to ban cell phones from all facets of school education, including field trips and on school buses. This follows a legal case where six students at a high school are faced with child pornography charges after three girls distributed semi-nude photos of themselves to classmates by phone. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 02/20/09 08:21:52
The Educause Horizon Report for 2009 has just been published. It makes predictions about the emerging technologies that are likely to have a significant impact on education. This year's predictions are: mobile devices, cloud computing, geo-everything, the personal web, semantic-aware applications, and smart objects.
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posted by Rune Baggetun on 01/29/09 11:39:18
New York and Las Vegas, January 9, 2009 – Mobile device use is exploding among children worldwide, cell phones and iPods are this generation’s preferred form of social communication. More than half of the world’s population now owns a cell phone and experts project that people will use cell phones as their primary means of accessing the Internet by the year 2020. However, most educators and parents have been skeptical, until now, about mobile devices’ value in learning. The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop issued a new study today documenting the untapped potential of mobile learning. The report, drawing on market trends and model programs, outlines the first-ever national mobile learning strategy, urging the Obama administration to make new investments in digital learning technologies and teacher training. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 01/14/09 09:50:51
The next Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE) conference will be held every two years from now onwards, with the next in 2010, probably in Taiwan, as part of a combined conference with DIGITEL2010. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 01/11/09 14:47:41
Building on the success of 12 fellowships awarded in 2008, The SPLINT Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning should like to offer a number of 'Visiting Fellowships' for colleagues from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the UK and overseas who would like to come and work with us and use our facilities. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 12/29/08 10:35:07
Papers from the 16th International Conference on Computer in Education (ICCE2008) held in Taiwan from October 27-31 are available for download at http://www.apsce.net/icce2008/program_cp.html. These including papers from the Contextual Ubiquitous and Mobile Technology Enhanced Learning (CUMTEL) theme. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 11/08/08 23:35:22
The 4th International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning, IMCL2009, is part of an international initiative to promote technology-enhanced learning and online engineering world-wide. The IMCL2009 conference will cover all aspects of mobile learning, mobile business, mobile government, mobile society as well as the emergence of mobile technologies, services, implementation and implications for education, business, governments and society. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 10/24/08 08:55:02
The Centre for Work-based Learning and Education (WLE), at the Institute of Education, London, in conjunction with the London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG), will hold the 3rd WLE Mobile Learning Symposium: Mobile Learning Cultures across Education, Work and Leisure on 27 March 2009 at the WLE Centre, IOE London, UK. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 10/12/08 22:27:28
IAMLearn members have discounts to the Online Educa and E-Learning
Africa conferences. The special rate for eLearning Africa 2009 for
non-african participants is 450 Euro instead of the regular 590 Euro for
participants. The special rate for Online Educa Berlin 2008 is 600 Euro
instead of the regular 790 Euro for participants. Members should use the
registration codes that can be found on the IAMLearn Members page. (read)
posted by Tim Jay on 10/06/08 20:43:50
"Academia and industry have only begun to explore the vast capabilities that the emerging field of mobile learning has to enrich education. To help researchers and practitioners drive the realization of the potential benefits of mobile learning technology to the next level, a thorough survey of the state of knowledge in this ascending field is vital." (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 09/25/08 09:13:30
The mLearn 2008 conference is giving discounts of £30 to IAMLearn members. You can either join on this website for £45 (£25 for students) and get a £30 discount for the conference. Or you can join the Association on the Conference website for £60, included as part of the registration, and then get a £30 discount. mLearn is the leading World Conference for mobile learning, this year being held at the World Heritage Site of Ironbridge Gorge, UK, from 8th-10th October.
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posted by Tim Jay on 07/30/08 15:49:50
We invite you to submit a paper to CAML'08 which will be held in Cergy-Pontoise - Paris, France on October 27-31, 2008. CAML'08 is an IEEE/ACM sponsored workshop covering a wide range of topics in the emerging field of M-learning. The aim of this workshop is to advance the state-of-the-art in M-learning design and theories, context-awareness in M-learning, and knowledge management for M-learning. CAML'08 in conjunction with CSTST'08 provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their research and experience in the field of mobile learning. We solicit both academic and industrial contributions covering mobile learning technologies, theories, systems, and applications. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 05/19/08 10:34:33
Ars Technica (May 15, 2008 - 09:21AM CT ) writes "Former One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) security director Ivan Krstić is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore. He opened up a massive can of damning allegations about OLPC earlier this week in a lengthy tirade on his personal blog." (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 05/18/08 22:00:54
Applications are invited for a three year PhD studentship. This project is funded by Great Western Research and is a collaboration between the Psychology Department at the University of Bath (Dr.Danaë Stanton Fraser, Dr. Dawn Woodgate); The Department of Computer at the University of Bristol (Dr. Mike Fraser) and Sciencescope (a specialist educational sensor company based in Bath). The PhD research will focus on understanding the educational impact of using mobile devices to collect scientific data as part of school science activities. The research will focus on three main areas: Reflection and Learning, Authentication and Privacy issues. (read)
posted by Tim Jay on 05/12/08 14:31:33
CALL FOR CHAPTERS FOR IGI GLOBAL BOOK :: BOOK title: "Architectures for Distributed and Complex M-Learning Systems: Applying Intelligent Technologies" (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 04/30/08 11:42:03
mLearn, the world's flagship mobile learning conference, will take place in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ironbridge in Shropshire, England, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in October 2008. The conference started in Birmingham and has since taken place in London, Rome, Cape Town, Banff and Melbourne. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 03/17/08 13:51:30
"Our aim is an exciting and compelling conference that will enable researchers and developers to showcase results of their cutting edge work in the rapidly moving field of serious games and that will stimulate debate on design and deployment issues." (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 02/07/08 11:19:25
Help Hendrik Buedding from Westfaelische- Wilhelms-university Muenster, Germany with his research by filling out this questionnaire. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 01/10/08 08:40:53
MobileMonday (22 Dec 2007 at 18:28 GMT Timo Poropudas) writes "At the age of 10, most children (88 per cent) have their own mobile phone, according to the survey. Four years ago, 52 per cent of 10 year olds had a mobile phone. In addition, 71 per cent of 9 year olds own or have access to a mobile phone, compared with 57 per cent last year. As many boys as girls have a mobile telephone." (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 01/04/08 21:59:11
mLearn, the world's flagship mobile learning conference, will take place in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ironbridge in Shropshire, England in October 2008, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 12/19/07 21:46:45
Modern technologies provide us with sophisticated tools for learning and teaching, such as serious games, i.e. game software applications that are designed to do more than entertain. Games engage; research shows that games applications can
effectively engage in learning.
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posted by Rune Baggetun on 12/17/07 23:43:27
The slides were produced for the mlearning SIG stand at the Kaleidoscope
Symposium, Berlin Nov 07 and gives a good overview of various SIG projects. Read on to view the download link. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 12/11/07 09:40:22
Newsfactor (Barry Levine, November 26, 2007 8:47AM ) reports that "the OLPC's Give One Get One (G1G1) laptop promotion -- where buyers purchase two OLPC laptops at once, one for personal use and one for a child in a developing nation -- comes at a challenging time for OLPC and its dream of getting millions of the OLPC laptops into the hands of the world's poorest children." This program is now being extended through the end of this year".

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posted by Rune Baggetun on 11/26/07 21:27:22
The Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology provides a multimedia forum for the advancement of scholarly work on the effects of technology on teaching and learning. It seeks to provide unique avenues for the dissemination of knowledge within the allied fields of new media and educational technology consistent with new and emerging technology research, theory, application and best practices.
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posted by Rune Baggetun on 11/18/07 19:54:15
Special Feature/Issue in International Journal on Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning. The editors invite scholarly articles on Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning Environments (MULE) supported by wireless, mobile, pervasive and ubiquitous technologies, such as PDA, mobile/smart phone, tablet PC, iPod, RFID tags, GPS, sensors, augmented reality, etc, to be considered for a special feature or full issue (depending on papers accepted) of the International Journal of Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning. Papers on the topic received after the deadline for this issue will be considered for an ongoing strand on the topic. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 11/14/07 09:15:28
"BBC Learning English has become the first international content provider to officially launch on Mobiledu.cn, Nokia's new mobile English Language Teaching (ELT) platform in China. Hundreds of millions of English-learners in China will now be able to use their mobile phones to take authentic and modern English learning courses provided by the BBC, including Take Away English, Real English and Quizzes. " (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 11/13/07 23:06:13
Put mobile learning on the agenda and participate in the BT developer challenge. The BT site writes: "BT now offers customers Wi-Fi connectivity in a large number of locations through its Wireless Cities initiative and its network of BT Openzone hotspots. This offers the potential for customers to utilise new, exciting applications that make use of this fast, high-bandwidth connectivity. To support this, the BT Wi-Fi Developer Challenge has been launched to seek out the most innovative applications for Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices. The challenge is supported by Symbian." (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 10/23/07 09:41:37
The SIG held a successful meeting at the Handheld Learning Conference in London. About 50 people attended, many of them newcomers to the SIG. Mike Sharples introduced the aims of the SIG and its activities over the past year. Then members of the SIG gave a roundup of news and projects from across Europe. After some lively disussion about the future of the SIG is was agreed to explore the possibilities for becoming affiliated with the International Association for Mobile Learning, to be launched at the mLearn conference in Melbourne, as a European SIG. Read on to download the presentation held at the SIG meeting. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 10/22/07 22:50:48
Norbert Pachler, Kaleidoscope Member and Co-director of the Work-Based Learning Centre for Education Professionals (WLE), Institute of Education, London is editor of a new FREE e-book

Entitled: Mobile Learning: towards a research agenda.
The book can be downloaded from:

http://www.wlecentre.ac.uk/cms/files/occasionalpapers/mobilelearning_pachler2007.pdf (read)
posted by Tim Jay on 10/03/07 10:20:14
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This is an invitation to PhD candidates to participate in the Kaleidoscope Virtual Doctoral School (VDS) Workshop “Design Challenges for Future Mobile Learning Environments”. The purpose of this VDS workshop is to elaborate and explore those aspects related to the design, implementation and evaluation of future learning environments supported by mobile technologies. The workshop is mainly aimed at PhD students within the Kaleidoscope Mobile Learning SIG who are conducting their research projects within the field of mobile learning. The number of participants for this workshop will be limited to 15 students. Participants will be carefully selected based on the relevance of their own research in connection to the main focus of this workshop.
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posted by Rune Baggetun on 09/18/07 12:51:34
"The 2nd Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning Environment (MULE) Workshop 2007 was successfully held from August 15 to 17 at the Centre for Information Technology in Education (CITE), Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, sponsored by APSCE (http://cello.is.tokushima­u.ac.jp/ogata/MULE2007HK/venue.html) with US$100.00. This workshop was initiated by the steering committee consisting of Prof. Hiroaki Ogata, Prof. Masanori Sugimoto, Prof. Chen­Chung Liu and Prof. Tai­Wai Chan, and co­organized by CITE local organizers: Prof. Nancy Law, Prof. Daniel Churchill, and Ms Yanjie Song. Hiroaki organized the program. CITE provided facilities and places for free utilization, and helped prepare and arrange the registration and daily events of the workshop. PhD students Ms Carol Chu and Mr. Moushir EL­Bishouty also contributed to the preparation work. 14 professors and 9 graduate students in total were invited and participated in the interactive and fruitful workshop." (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 09/17/07 11:02:33
The 'World Changing' site writes: "Cut to the world of the nearly-ubiquitous mobile phones. Could these devices be harnessed as learning tools for urban naturalists and farmers?"(Sanjay Khanna - WorldChanging Team August 28, 2007 8:48 AM) (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 08/30/07 15:32:52
The conference aims to promote the development of Mobile Learning, encourage the study and implementation of mobile applications in teaching and learning and provide a forum for education and knowledge transfer. IMCL2008 will provide educators and researchers with an excellent opportunity to convene and discuss innovative ideas in the emerging fields of mLearning and online labs and the general eLearning discipline. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 08/21/07 08:51:44
The Freedom to Tinker writes (August 10th, 2007): "Today’s guest blogger, SG, is twelve years old and is the child of a close friend. I lent the laptop to SG and asked SG to write a review, which appears here just as SG wrote it, without any editing." (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 08/15/07 20:23:50
The Telegraph (Calcutta, Friday, August 03, 2007):
"Hewlett Packard, one of the world’s leading providers of technology solutions, will set up a mobile learning centre in the region’s only IIT to give students of computer science and information technology courses access to high-end technology." (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 08/07/07 09:27:15
After some initial competing over providing educational laptops the technology Web log 'Good Morning Silicon Valley' writes "that apparently the craziness is over. Intel announced today that it would join the board of the OLPC project and kick in money and expertise". (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 07/15/07 23:53:01
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NewswireToday reports that "The UK's largest-scale exercise in mobile education to date is helping 9,000 students throughout Yorkshire to assess their own competencies via their phones and related handheld devices"(newswire - St Albans, Herts, United Kingdom, 07/10/2007). (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 07/13/07 21:52:23
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PRNewswire reports (ATLANTA, June 25) that Nokia and the Pearson Foundation have announced two significant expansions of their Mobile Learning Institute program: "The Mobile Learning Institute Leadership Network and the Digital Arts Alliance Leadership Institute." (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 07/02/07 09:34:45
The conference aims to promote the development of eLearning and mLearning in the Middle East, provides a forum for education and knowledge transfer and encourages the implementation of mobile applications in teaching and learning. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 06/19/07 13:55:08
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The OLPC project is one of the projects we are following closely in the mlearning SIG. This is the third video documentary available from Red Hat Magazine about OLPC. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 06/12/07 09:50:32
The 5th International Conference on Wireless,Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE2008), to be held in Beijing, will be a prestigious and high quality international conference that establishes a forum for a scholarly exchange and interaction in employing the use of wireless,mobile and ubiquitous technologies in education. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 06/03/07 22:49:29
This is a workshop in conjunction with ICCE 2007 (http://www.icce2007.info). The theme for the workshop will be "Design and Experiments of Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning Environments (MULEs)". (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 06/01/07 09:47:53
A series of some really nice videos of the 'green machine' are available from the Red Hat Magazine. In these videos you will among other matters be introduced to the team behind the OLPC including the ideas behind the project. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 05/29/07 10:20:24
Chip-maker Intel "should be ashamed of itself" for efforts to undermine the $100 laptop initiative, according to its founder Nicholas Negroponte. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 05/29/07 09:59:32
There's been discussion in the media over the past months about concerns over Wi-Fi and other wireless technologies in schools. The BBC have joined the debate with a 30 minute Panorama documentary in the UK on Monday 21st May. Dr William Stewart, Chairman of the UK Health Protection Agency is reported to have called for a review into the health risks of using Wi-Fi in schools after the Panorama programme-makers measured signal strength from a laptop that was three times higher than a typical phone mast. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 05/21/07 13:45:09
“After seven years, there was literally no evidence it had any impact on student achievement — none,” said Mark Lawson, the school board president here in Liverpool, one of the first districts in New York State to experiment with putting technology directly into students’ hands. “The teachers were telling us when there’s a one-to-one relationship between the student and the laptop, the box gets in the way. It’s a distraction to the educational process.” (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 05/18/07 10:50:16
3iMobile has announced the introduction, in France and several other European countries, of a new method teaching English using a 3G/UMTS Video phone combining interactive self-study lessons with live English tutoring by native speaking instructors in New York. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 04/26/07 09:07:33
Last week CBCNEWS Canada Toronto reported that "Toronto District School Board trustees voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion to force students to turn off their cellphones and other personal electronic devices such as BlackBerrys." This is bad news for productive use of personal computational devices in education and is a view we as a community need to be aware of. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 04/23/07 23:54:46
The PI (Personal Inquiry) project is a new joint project between the University of Nottingham and the Open University. In this Australian PC World magazine article, "Ultramobile PCs to lead in 21st century science education", you can read about the aim of the projects including short about it's 'scripted inquiry learning' approach. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 04/10/07 15:49:49
Recently TI has demonstrated a projector that fits into a mobile phone. The mobile phone is slightly larger than a normal mobile phone, but this is existing news with regard to the development of larger mobile displays. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 04/10/07 15:24:20
Arstechnica reports that Quanta, the company manufacturing the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
project's XO laptops, plans to begin selling low-cost budget mobile computers for $200 later this year. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 04/02/07 12:17:59
This special issue deals with the techniques and pedagogies for personalized, adaptive and intelligent m-learning, and aims to include issues that cross the boundaries of software engineering, artificial intelligence, and information systems to bring solutions in m-learning context. This collection will serve as a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their contributions and set future directions in information and service personalization for mobile learning. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 02/26/07 21:19:03
This conference, hosted by The Open University in partnership with Athabasca University, aims to explore and share work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users ‘on the move,’ via a growing plethora of mobile devices. (read)
posted by Rune Baggetun on 02/23/07 14:43:53
The "Big Issues in Mobile Learning" report has now been published. The report is edited by Mike Sharples and contains chapters from 8 collaborative sessions organised around important and emergent topics of mobile learning.

A limited number of printed copies are available and will be sent to those who first send their personal profile (postal address, email, affiliation, description of your mobile learning interests, and a photo) to rune.baggetun AT intermedia.uib.no.

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posted by Rune Baggetun on 01/31/07 20:43:00
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The new website for the SIG has been launched. It will collate an extensive resource of news, documents, projects and provide a forum for researchers with an interest in research into mobile, contextual and ambient learning across Europe and beyond.
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posted by Tim Jay on 01/19/07 12:13:09
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On New Years’ Day I had the good fortune to travel in a new Boeing 777-300ER commissioned by Singapore Airlines. The 13 hour flight gave me plenty of time to explore the latest design and technology developments. (read)
posted by Tim Jay on 01/08/07 12:15:43