Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Study: for most, all-in-one phones aren't - Engadget Mobile

"over half of multimedia phone owners are still toting a dedicated MP3 player, some 75% of smartphone users lug a PDA as well, and a staggering 80% of cameraphone owners "regularly" carry their digital camera."

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Mobile Learning at the Stanford Learning Lab

"Last summer, the Stanford Learning Lab (SLL) developed a few rough prototypes for mobile learning. The SLL staff chose foreign language study as the content area, hypothesizing that mobile devices could help provide sorely needed opportunities for review, listening and speaking practice in a safe, authentic, personalized and on-demand environment.

The prototypes developed let users practice new words, take a quiz, access word and phrase translations, work with a live coach, and save vocabulary to a notebook - all in an integrated voice/data environment. The intent this summer was not yet to support an actual Stanford course, but instead to begin exploring recent technologies and fundamental human cognitive challenges involved i learning on-the-go."

Monday, October 02, 2006

Microlearning

"Microlearning deals with relatively small learning units and short-term learning activities. Generally, the term 'microlearning' refers to micro-perspectives in the context of learning, education and training. More frequently, the term is used in the domain of E-learning and related fields in the sense of a new paradigmatic perspective on learning processes in mediated environments on micro levels."