Emantras releases Mobl21 HD for iPad
Mobl21 is an award-winning, mobile learning application that supports a dynamic, unstructured way of learning. Using Mobl21, educators can develop content that learners can access from their mobile devices, allowing them to study at their own pace and therefore, perform better.
Mobl21 gives students instant access to valuable learning material, anywhere, anytime. As a result, students can now make use of those idle minutes between classes, or commuting, to glance through notes or review material before the next class.
Mobl21 also helps educators easily create learning material, and publish to multiple users or groups. Additional tool features enable educators to track and monitor content access and view test performances.
Mobile Computing 5-Day Sprint
An Online Conversation on Mobile Computing and Higher Education
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Day 1, April 25: The Future of Mobile Computing Welcome to the Mobile Computing 5-Day Sprint daily newsletter. This newsletter connects you to today’s theme and activities. |
Learning & Skills Survey: 87% More eLearning & Mobile Learning; 73% Less 2-3 Day Classroom Training — from the Upside Learning blog by Amit Garg
Tutor.com To Go™– Connecting Students to a Live Tutor
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If you thought we were excited when we passed the six million online tutoring sessions mark , then you should see our office today! We’ve created some pretty cool education technology tools over the years, but nothing compares to our new mobile app, Tutor.com To Go. For the very first time, a student can connect to a tutor using their iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Our app is FREE to all Tutor.com account holders.
Tutor.com To Go lets students…
eCampus of the Month: Abilene Christian University — from eCampusNews.com by Dennis Carter
ACU has established itself as a leader in mobile education, particularly with popular Apple products like the iPod and iPad
ACU gives iPhones and iPods to its 4,700 students.
Abilene Christian University (ACU), long a leading advocate for the use of web-ready mobile devices in higher education, is taking its tech savvy to K-12 schools, where students are becoming familiar with the ins and outs of tablets such as the Apple iPad.
ACU’s commitment to mobile technology has earned the 4,700-student institution the distinction of being eCampus News’s first eCampus of the Month, an award given to colleges and universities that push for more advanced and efficient use of educational technology, establishing national models for small and large schools alike.
Mobile learning: A quick SWOT Analysis — from the Upside Learning Blog by Amit Gautam; originally saw this at GetIdeas.org by Jes Kelly
For over two years now, we have not only just been hearing about mobile learning but also actively understanding and working on it. From trying to explain five myths of mobile learning to assisting customer new to mobile learning, getting started with mobile learning has been an exciting journey through which we have seen mobile learning seeing increasing adoption. This has been possible due to a variety of factors – better, faster, cheaper smartphones, the advent of tablet computers, and an increasing awareness of the benefits and applicability of mobile learning.
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 for education — from Adobe.com
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 boosts HTML5 and mobile development — from The Journal by David Nagel
Adobe also said it will be making changes to Creative Suite development cycle. Adobe is gearing up to release an update to Creative Suite, its flagship development environment and digital media production package. The upcoming version 5.5 release, due out within a month, incorporates new features for creating HTML5 applications and apps developed specifically for tablets.
Adobe takes on mobile world with Creative Suite 5.5 — from webmonkey.com by Scott Gilbertson
You can rent Photoshop and other Adobe software — from Digital Inspiration
Text-to-Speech Functionality in [Adobe] Captivate — from Integrated Learning Services by Dean Hawkinson
Adobe connects tablets to Photoshop with new Photoshop Touch SDK — from arstechnica.com by Chris Foresman
Group video calling comes to iPhone & Android in Fring beta test — from Mashable.com by Jennifer Van Grove
Daniel Christian:
A Vision of Our Future Learning Ecosystems
In the near future, as the computer, the television, the telephone (and more) continues to converge, we will most likely enjoy even more powerful capabilities to conveniently create and share our content as well as participate in a global learning ecosystem — whether that be from within our homes and/or from within our schools, colleges, universities and businesses throughout the world.
We will be teachers and students at the same time — even within the same hour — with online-based learning exchanges taking place all over the virtual and physical world. Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) — in the form of online-based tutors, instructors, teachers, and professors — will be available on demand. Even more powerful/accurate/helpful learning engines will be involved behind the scenes in delivering up personalized, customized learning — available 24x7x365. Cloud-based learner profiles may enter the equation as well.
The chances for creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship that are coming will be mind-blowing! What employers will be looking for — and where they can look for it — may change as well.
What we know today as the “television” will most likely play a significant role in this learning ecosystem of the future. But it won’t be like the TV we’ve come to know. It will be much more interactive and will be aware of who is using it — and what that person is interested in learning about. Technologies/applications like Apple’s AirPlay will become more standard, allowing a person to move from device to device without missing a beat. Transmedia storytellers will thrive in this environment!
Much of the professionally done content will be created by teams of specialists, including the publishers of educational content, and the in-house teams of specialists within colleges, universities, and corporations around the globe. Perhaps consortiums of colleges/universities will each contribute some of the content — more readily accepting previous coursework that was delivered via their consortium’s membership.
An additional thought regarding higher education and K-12 and their Smart Classrooms/Spaces:
For input devices…
The “chalkboards” of the future may be transparent, or they may be on top of a drawing board-sized table or they may be tablet-based. But whatever form they take and whatever is displayed upon them, the ability to annotate will be there; with the resulting graphics saved and instantly distributed. (Eventually, we may get to voice-controlled Smart Classrooms, but we have a ways to go in that area…)
Below are some of the graphics that capture a bit of what I’m seeing in my mind…and in our futures.
Alternatively available as a PowerPoint Presentation (audio forthcoming in a future version)
— from Daniel S. Christian | April 2011
Addendum on 4-14-11:
EDUCAUSE Review
Volume 46, Number 2 | March/April 2011
Getting a Handle on Mobile: Perspectives
Features
