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 will be […]
I’ve been avoiding Apple devices since around 1996 when I decided that having both a Mac and a PC on my desk was getting ridiculous. While Macs were in many ways better than Windows-based machines they were clearly losing the adoption war. The arrival of the iPod failed to win me back, perhaps because they […]
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 […]
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 hyperlink – […]