New Mobile Learning Content Site

It is getting harder and harder to keep up with all that is happening with mobile learning.

Like you, I get lots of alerts and feeds and try to struggle through them each day, but that usually doesn’t happen due to time constraints. From every ten Google alerts on “mobile learning” there is usually only one that is relevant. Most have to do with mobile carts for learning, learning about something in Mobile, AL, or laptop projects. Alerts for “mlearn” used to be more relevant, but less often. Now it appears that Google has changed its search algorithms and is now picking up everything with “I’m learning” whether it is about cooking, driving, drugs, or anything else.

Now for those interested in mobile learning, there is a content community site that aggregates all the great post by actual implementers and researchers. Please visit cc.mlearnopedia.com and sign up for the RSS feed or bookmark it. If there are sites that we missed, please let us know.

For some of the popular e-learning experts and others who occasionally write about mobile initiatives or opportunities, these will also be picked up (as best as we can).

mLearnopedia.com will remain focused on news stories, articles, announcements, etc., but all the important blog details will be on cc.mlearnopedia.com.

Today we published a press release which you can view here. (PDF)

We’d love to hear your comments.

Mobile Learning Related News

A lot has been happening lately in the mobile learning arena. Some of the more important items are:

• The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop has released what could become a very important report entitled “pockets of potential: Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children’s Learning.” Directed mainly at K-12, hopefully administrators will read this and take note. Some of the advantages noted for mobile learning include:

1. Encourage "anywhere, anytime" learning
   
2. Reach underserved children
   
3. Improve 21st-century social interactions
   
4. Fit with learning environments
   
5. Enable a personalized learning experience

• Ambient Insight released their latest mobile learning report indicating that the US Mobile Learning Market is growing by 21.7 percent. Check out the press release here and the Executive Summary here.

• The International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) has just published its latest issue at http://www.i-jim.org. The Table of Contents includes:

Adaptive Approaches to Mobile Learning


Mobile Learning in Context — Context-aware Hypermedia in the Wild


Extending LIP to provide an adaptive mobile learning


Client Mobile Software Design Principles for Mobile Learning Systems


Investigating Mobile Devices Integration in Higher Education in Cyprus: Faculty Perspectives


M-Learning, Mobile Experimentation and Telepresence with Cell Phones and PDAs


A Time Series Modeling and Prediction of Wireless Network Traffic


A Learning-by-Doing Approach to Medication Management for Adolescent Diabetics


Survey on Context-Aware Pervasive Learning Environments


Integrating Gender and Ethnicity in Mobile Courses Ante-Design: a TELearning Instrument

• Rovy Branon from the Academic ADL Co-Lab has rolled out a social network site for mobilemedialearning for research and practice in teaching with mobile media. Check it out at http://www.mobilemedialearning.org

• David Metcalf and I were interviewed for ASTD's Learning Circuit's E-Learning 2.009. You can read it at http://www.astd.org/LC/2008/1208_kaplan.htm