Laisa Bernard offered a useful comment to the post Nearsourcing of Information and Mobile Learning.
There are a lot of new and exciting things going on in the world of Mobile Learning! Did you know that there are many universities, corporations, government facilities and academic organizations that are merging their eLearning with mLearning, all over the world?
Teachers may find three things for prompt use in this extended comment:
1. Laisa’s profile lists four blogs about mobile learning, including descriptions of mobile learning tools in schools; and
2. An offer of a mobile learning demo; and
3. A publisher’s authorized free trial download of mobile learning HotLavaSoftware.
Thanks, Laisa, for your comment and for sharing your ideas with teachers.
Teachers, Tableteers, Ultra Mobile PC, and other mobile PC users, let us know how you like their software and websites. What strengths and weaknesses do you find for learning with mobile devices other than mobile PCs?
We’re so lucky to have a fast growing array of mobile learning tools for nearsourcing as well as farthersourciing in and out of schools.
“Five years from now, the use of mobile learning, testing and job aides will be more prevalent in society than books are today,” contends the Hot Lava CEO Robert Sanregret. A.J. Ripin, director of global learning solutions for MovingKnowledge Inc., insists that while the march of technology might change the delivery, mobile learning is here to stay. What’s more, he says, the beauty of the burgeoning m-learning market is that standards have not yet been identified either for operating systems or delivery. That’s great for the consumer, he figures, because it means continued development of better solutions. Check out these ideas further at http://whatismobilelearning.blogspot.com/2007/07/mobile-learning-story.html For me, they make the reality of nearsourcing more compelling for teachers to address in lesson plans and individual education plans for all students. What do you think?