The OU is working on a number of iPhone applications as well as optimising some of its websites for mobile delivery. One example of an iPhone app is Devolve Me where you can see how you might have looked back in the mists of time. Strangely, I end up looking pretty much as I do [...]
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Mobile learning has been promoted as a massive up and coming phenomenon now for so long that you could be forgiven for being cynical; uptake for educational purposes has been very slow. However the devices and applications are getting so sophisticated that I’ve come round to the view that before long many learners [...]
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At the OU’s Learning, Teaching and Student Support Committee today Rhodri Thomas introduced a paper on a framework for mobile learning. It occurred to me that there are at least four scenarios for the use of mobile learning we need to be preparing for now:
Some students want to access much of their course content [...]
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At yesterday’s OU VLE Policy Group meeting we discussed a paper by Rhodri Thomas on Podcasting. He suggests that podcasts should only be used where there is an expectation that a regular sequence of audio or video files is to be provided. A single file should be delivered as a download from a [...]
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