Category Archives: Mobile Learning

GENEVA — A United Nations telecom meeting has approved the next generation of mobile technology, which experts say will make devices 500 times faster than 3G smartphones and eliminate the wait time between the tap of a finger and the … Continue reading →

Computers have certainly aided learning in recent years, but they haven’t yet fostered the promised revolution in education that has been discussed for over 40 years, according to Apple cofounder, educator, and all-around geek Steve Wozniak. Woz made the comments during a keynote … Continue reading →

“Mobile” has sufficiently cemented itself among the buzzwords of 2012. Here’s a look at top trends and predictions for mobile learning in 2012 from industry analysts. Increased proliferation of tablet and smartphones in the market, forcing schools to relent and … Continue reading →

More and more schools are using mobile learning devices to help boost student engagement and achievement, and a new monograph from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) examines some of the best practices in mobile devices from schools across the … Continue reading →

For Wall Street Occupiers or other decriers of the “social injustice” of college tuition, here’s a curveball bound to scramble your worldview: a totally free college education regardless of your academic performance or background. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) … Continue reading →

by David Parry “The future our students will inherit is one that will be mediated and stitched together by the mobile web, and I think that ethically, we are called on as teachers to teach them how to use these … Continue reading →

Here on the last day of the year, I offer my predications for the big and shaping trends we’ll see in the enterprise mobile learning space for 2012.  As in the past, this year’s list includes predictions across a gamut … Continue reading →

Columbia, MO — (Dec. 8, 2011) –  LearningWeb was named one of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship Rising Venture I.T. and Web Companies at the 9th annual I.T. and Web Venture Forum in Houston last week. Information Technology … Continue reading →

If you’re a regular GeekTech reader, you may have seen our post about an emerging technology that lets you control you phone just by waving your hands in front of it. You also may have heard of this thing called … Continue reading →

There is a lot of excitement and controversy around HTML5 these days. HTML5 is predicted to have a big impact, perhaps because it seems to simplify the complexity associated with so many different mobile operating systems and bring us closer … Continue reading →

When it comes to buzz words in online education, “mLearning” is making a lot of noise. In an attempt to verify whether or not the hype is warranted, eCollegeFinder.org ended up discovering why many top online schools are looking to … Continue reading →

New York’s museums have moved beyond the audio wand. The American Museum of Natural History is opening a new exhibit, Beyond Planet Earth, this weekend, with an ambitious mobile application that conjures up three-dimensional images of solar systems and spacecraft … Continue reading →

Mobile technology is on the minds of higher education professionals more than ever before. At the recent HighEdWeb conference in Austin, the itinerary included several ways schools can use social media, blogs and mobile technologies to better captivate its student … Continue reading →

(We have created an 8-part comprehensive report containing a series of two-to-three page “briefs.” This is part 4: mLearning devices and platforms: What you need to know. If you would like to see the collection in its entirety, click here.) … Continue reading →

Mobile learning is certainly a hot discussion topic with elearning and training solutions providers in Australia – like anywhere else in the world. In my meetings with clients and prospects in Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne over that last couple of … Continue reading →