Mobile Learning On The Interwebs

Beginning with the School CIO Top Stories.

This Week’s Top 10 Most Read Stories on SchoolCIO.com

1. New Android tablet designed for education

Top Stories – 02.15.11

• 14 Apps for ProDev on the go

On to the Converge Special Report: K-12.

The Impact of the iPad on K-12 Schools Find out the technical and instructional implications of the iPad in the classroom.

Then the Education Tech News Weekly.

Feb 18, 2011
7 need-to-know iPad shortcuts
Is there anything students like more than a new tech toy … er, tool? More…

Back to the regular Google News alert for mobile learning.

US must come together to close its skills gap
Dubuque Telegraph Herald
These programs will start in India and will serve as a model for how other countries can harness the promise of mobile learning for helping their students …
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Mobile learning: Implementation
TrainingZone.co.uk
What are some of the fundamental unmet needs of an organisation that mobile learning can address? Annee: A basic need is around accessibility and the idea …
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Upside Learning Wows ASTD TechKnowledge 2011 Attendees With Upside2Go …
PRLog.Org (press release)
PRLog (Press Release) – Feb 15, 2011 – pside2Go, Upside Learning’s newly launched revolutionary platform for mobile learning, garnered many eyeballs, leading to curiosity and awareness, at the recently concluded ASTD TechKnowledge 2011 in San Jose. …
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How mobile learning can boost performance
TrainingZone.co.uk
… but still you may not be quite sure what it is. Andrew Jackson explains. This article helps answer several questions: What is performance support, exactly? How does it fit in with existing training? How does it relate to mobile learning?
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Mobile apps supplying Soldiers with training
The Fort Gordon Signal
The students are part of a pilot program using mobile devices, with tailored applications, to give students a platform where they can continue learning even after leaving the classroom. Keith Desbois FORT LEE, Va. — Today’s Soldier is tech savvy, …
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Mobile Technologies and the Digital Divide
Huffington Post
As we think about education — also a civic good — we should consider how we can bring teaching and learning to as many people as possible, and as such focus on building HTML5 web apps that are accessible via any Internet-ready device. …
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Need an App? There’s an Outsourcer for That
PCWorld
Putting a new app in the App Store requires not only programming expertise, but also learning the process of good app design and getting yourself involved in Apple’s approval process. And that’s an awful lot of knowledge to pick up in a short amount of …
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Clinical Research Academy of America (CRAA) Launches Mobile Application for …
Benzinga
The new android application, called “CRAA Connect” will be one of the first mobile learning platforms for clinical research, clinical data management and Oracle Clinical. It is first-of-its-kind all-in-one application through which students can login …
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Intersog tops Mashable’s list of 8 best apps for small business owners
Appmodo
Chicago, Illinois – Intersog, a leading developer of mobile learning applications, is thankful for the recognition Mashable’s editors have given their Learning-To-Go product line, a broad collection of business focused mobile education apps. …
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Honors students to help with Connected Summit
ACU Optimist Online
By Laura Gasvoda The 2011 Mobile Learning Connected Summit will bring as many as 500 professionals from around the world to Abilene this week. In order to manage the large number of visitors expected to attend, Michelle Davenport, …
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viaLearning “Product and Sales Training” mLearning Courses on the Rise
WebWire (press release)
A new report by Ambient Insight called, “The US Market for Mobile Learning Products and Services: 2009-2014 Forecast and Analysis” states that the US demand for mobile learning is growing by a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.3% and …
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The Google Blogs alert for mobile learning.

Urban Planet Wins Global Mobile Award | atdc.org
By Lance Weatherby
The Global Mobile Awards announced today at the GSMA conference in Barcelona, Spain that Savannah based Urban Planet Mobile was selected as the Best Mobile Learning Innovation. Joining other winners such as Angry Birds, Apple, …
atdc.org – http://atdc.org/

Looking ahead to 2011 | SunGard Higher Education’s European Blog
By Richard Forrest
Mobile learning. Mobile has been consistently mentioned as a huge trend for the last few years, but this year, with the proliferation of smartphones, campus- wide wifi and low-production cost applications, we’ll begin to see the real …
SunGard Higher Education’s European Blog – http://blogs.sungard.com/he_europe/

IPADS FOR MOBILE LEARNING (Conference Alerts – academic …
In this conference you will learn about deploying iPads for contemporary learners. Find out about the impact of mobile learning on student outcomes. Explore the iPad and the use of apps for creative student-centred learning.
Australia conferences – http://www.conferencealerts.com/australia.htm

Call for papers: Multimedia Data Processing Technologies and their …
By Ian
… Collaborative and social mobile learning; Edge detection using mean shift algorithms; Biomedical signal measure systems based on sensor networks; Noun and keyword extraction for information processing; Blended learning with mobile …
Inderscience news – http://inderscience.blogspot.com/

Part2: the facilitators of the free mobile online course
By noreply@blogger.com (Ignatia/Inge de Waard)
Last week I posted the first post related to a free, open online course on the topic of mobile learning. The course starts to get into shape, and it will be running from 2nd April – 14 May 2011. I am waiting to release the name of the …
@Ignatia Webs – http://ignatiawebs.blogspot.com/

Finally, the Google Web alert for mobile learning.

Mobile Learning Task Force | Innovations in Online Learning
The Mobile Learning Task Force, a collaborative committee with members from the CDL faculty, Curriculum & Instructional Group and the Office of Academic …
commons.esc.edu/cdl-course…/mobile-learning-task-force/

Mobile Apps and Mobile Learning | EDUCAUSE
Mobile Apps and Mobile Learning. Session Type: Roundtable Discussion. Tuesday. Mar 15th, 2011. 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM. Grand Ballroom/Seventh Floor …
www.educause.edu/MWRC11/Program/DISC18

APAC Mobile Learning Conference 2011
Dear Friends of the Industry,APAC MOBILE LEARNING CONFERENCE 20118-9 June 2011, Bandung, IndonesiaTheme : Next Generation Mobile LearningGreetings, …
www.cmswire.com/…/apac-mobile-learning-conference-2011-…

Mobile learning in developing countries in 2011: What’s new …
Since Mohamed Ally’s useful general survey on Mobile Learning was published in early 2009, what has been happening ‘on-the-ground’ in developing countries …
blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/node/616