Mobile Learning

  
Fig The tutor on the move writing and sending e-mails to the students from Düsseldorf ‘Himmelturm’ and a student on holiday communicating from the garden of his hotel in Rome (Source: http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/corpinfo/programs/resource_documents/eclo_nki_paper.pdf)

A study “Enhancing the flexibility of distance education through mobile learning” which is presented at Paper to The European Consortium for the learning Organization, ECLO – 15th International conference  “Never Stop Asking – The Age of Life Long Learning”,  Budapest talks about the use of mobile in learning. It is an interesting issue for me because it is a design solution for delivery of courses using mobile technology who wish to study when they move. Solutions were designed to test that can be used on any kind of mobile devices.

The paper presents and discusses NKI (Norwegian Knowledge Institute) Distance Education basic philosophies of distance teaching and learning and their consequences for development of a learning environment supporting mobile distance learners. The study indicated that they have interesting results of delivering courses through mobile. Currently they are working on designing a learning environment which allows both mobile and not mobile learners to participate and enroll in the same course and that course materials can be assessed both by standard and mobile technology with acceptable quality of all content elements. This type of flexbility is importnat for developing countries, beacuse mobile is affordable with minimum cost. Hence, I am interested with the issue.

Reference

Dye A & Rekkedal T. (2008). Enhancing the flexibility of distance education through mobile learning” which is presented at Paper to The European Consortium for the learning Organization, ECLO – 15th International conference  “Never Stop Asking – The Age of Life Long Learning”,  Budapest. Retrieved on September 21, 2010 at http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/corpinfo/programs/resource_documents/eclo_nki_paper.pdf