Dianne Rees's List: mobile learning

• plain HTML and appears to run on all mobile devices with browsers.
• iWebkit and CSS and appears to run well on the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, several Nokia devices and Windows Mobile.

• 63% of mobile workers prefer to use a smart phone for work-related tasks (iPass report on mobile workforces - Robert Gadd)
• • But how many prefer to use for learning?
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• I want to share some tools which may assist you in developing mobile learning applications.

• You may like to consider intermittent  internet connection while attempting a course

• This is where services such as Polleverywhere come in
• pay-service allows teacher to poll students using text messaging to an intermediary so that neither the teacher nor the student has to share their personal information with each other. 
• • Assumes there's no "mobile divide"

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• • Design an SMS advertisement to promote a business service or product;
   
  • Negotiate a contract to sell some goods with their tutor using SMS;
   
  • Purchase a can of soft drink using SMS, and send a SMS message to their tutor concerning the steps taken to obtain the drink;
   
  • Create an agenda for a meeting a business is having the next day and SMS it to their tutor as if he was a member of the company
• not the only blended learning
• A key driver of success in learning is motivation, and SMS can achieve this because of its everyday use by student

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