If you are interested in mLearning, but need some manner of resource to get authorization to try it, this might just be what you are looking for. It is from the UK, but I’m sure that it’s going to offer some good insights to the North American context as well – but you might have to do a PAL/NTSC (or even region 🙁 )conversion to watch it (unless your computer has an agnostic drive).
Upwardly Mobile is a DVD-ROM which is designed to be a practitioner resource and is aimed at both technophiles and technophobes. Within the educational community it has long been suspected that, for all the difficulties of small screens, fiddly buttons and clunky navigation, mobile learning has much to offer disabled learners. Upwardly Mobile provides teaching and lecturing staff across the UK educational sectors with information on the accessibility pros and cons of mobile learning, ideas and approaches on using mobile content created by tutors, learners and other individuals, and tips on creating and distributing mobile content.
The guidance on Upwardly Mobile is aimed at teaching and lecturing staff who want their teaching to be more engaging and inclusive, but who are working within the realities of limited time and limited budget. In putting this guidance together JISC TechDis has therefore prioritised approaches that blend mobile learning with face-to-face teaching, and that will enhance rather than ursurp normal practices. Upwardly Mobile also focuses on techniques that maximise the use of familiar technologies and software that is free and user-friendly.
Learning with mobile devices can bring many inclusion benefits, enabling learners to access content wherever and whenever they choose, and using a device they know they can operate. m-Learning therefore has vast potential to enhance learning opportunities for all, as well as levelling the playing field for learners with specific needs. JISC TechDis hopes that Upwardly Mobile will provide the educational community in the UK with inspiration to mainstream m-learning, and offer a richer palette of activities and resources to enable all teaching to become more inclusive, accessible and engaging.
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