m-learning
Developments
New opportunities are starting
to emerge for learning using portable devices like smartphones, personal
digital assistants (PDAs), tablet PCs and laptop computers which can also be
linked via communications systems like Wi Fi (wireless LAN) or GPRS
and GSM. pjb
Associates has been monitoring these developments and analysing these trends
for more than four years.
We have collected a number of
useful papers and articles and
other resources as well as continue to monitor research
projects. Also see m-learning World.
In addition we edited the
MOBilearn Newsletter for the
MOBilearn Project. The MOBIlearn
Project is a worldwide European-led research and development project
exploring context-sensitive approaches to informal, problem-based and
workplace learning by using key advances in mobile technologies.
In September 2001 we established
the m-learning Forum with the purpose of encouraging new business
opportunities and stimulating mobile learning products and services within
the overall Learning Business. This in turn we hope will create new
opportunities for widening access to learning in order to reduce social
exclusion and opportunities for the continuous up-skilling of the workforce
in order to maintain competitiveness.
Under the Forum we organised two
successful meetings one in London, UK at the Pearson Headquarters on
“Developing the
Mobile Learning Business” and the
other one in Helsinki, Finland entitled
“Finland as a laboratory of mobile
technologies” and have helped organise the "Interactive TV &
Mobile Learning" conference. We have also been associated with with a number
of other conferences -
“European Workshop on Mobile And Contextual
Learning” - Birmingham University, UK and
"mLearning:
the Cutting Edge" Dublin, Ireland
If any organisation is
interested in using our consultancy services contact Peter Bates at
pjb@pjb.co.uk.
