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IAmLearn is a membership organization to promote excellence in research, development and application of mobile and contextual learning. It
organizes the annual mLearn international conference series and manages the website to collate and disseminate information about new projects,
emerging technologies, and teaching resources.
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Report from UNESCO Mobile Learning Week: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....
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F E A T U R E D P R O J E C T
Project Leader: Italian National Research Council-Institute for Educational Technologies of Palermo
Title: MoULe - Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning
The MoULe - Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning project carried out at the Italian National Research Council, Institute for Educational Technologies – Palermo. It is part of the CORFAD project. CORFAD was set up by the Sicilian government with the aim of developing a centre of knowledge for distance learning.
The key idea behind the MoULe project is to support learning experience based on collaborative knowledge building processes supported by mobile device.
The MoULe project implements and experiments an innovative learning environment that allows students to overcome the space-temporal limitations of classroom activities based on a mixture of classroom and on site experiences. Using the GPS technology, the system automatically associates the students’ activities with their geographical location.
Users can edit and share documents using both desktop computers, through an extension of Moodle platform, and smartphones.
The main functionalities are: localized annotation, synchronous and asynchronous communication tools, localized search, creation of shared content by a wiki.
The MoULe project is a finalist for the Educational category of the first annual Mobile Learning Excellence Awards, which recognize mobile learning solutions and innovations....
If you would like to contact the team then email moule@itd.cnr.it
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Featured Event:
The Fourth International m-libraries Conference Will begin on 2012-09-24, at Open University, UK.
Further details of this and other events can be browsed and searched here.
Featured Resource:
A bibiography of useful mobile learning references can be downloaded in various forms here.
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