Tag Archives: mobile learning

Handheld Learning 2009 - The Quest Continues

The motley crew of mobile learning affectionados (myself included) have just completed their yearly pilgrimage to Handheld Learning 2009 (HHL). For 3 days at The Brewery conference centre in London mobile projects are celebrated and visions of future of learning are shared, debated reformed and then shared and debated some more.
The highest profile part [...]

Sustainable Mobile Learning

When I was at school, around this time of year, we would visit Marks and Spencer’s for the annual school uniform trip. Uniform was compulsory but not supplied by the school, the same was true for PE Kit, pens, pencils, rulers, calculators and a whole raft of other supplies much of which had no application [...]

Spartacus Learning

I am on a train, as I write this, heading back from the Mimas (The University of Manchester) Mobile Learning - Telling Tales event at the University of Westminster. I’ve had time to have a great conversation with Graham Brown-Martin, Carl Smith and Sara Wingate Gray after the event. One of those great post-conference chats [...]

Mimas: Tellling Tales - Mobile Learning Event

I recently presented at the Mimas: Telling Tales - Mobile Learning event at The University of Westminster in London. Mimas is a national data centre based at The University of Manchester. They decamped to London for the day and hosted a great forum on Mobile Learning. Lorraine Estelle from JISC Collections gave the opening  and [...]

Mobile Learning in Revolt?

It’s weird I ask the question, is “Mobile Learning worth it?” and a few hours later in my in-box I get notification of Chris Nash’s The End of the MLearning Revolution over at Handheld Learning, a forum I have been a member of for quite a while now.
I’ve always championed large scale access to Mobile [...]

Mobile Learning - is it worth it?

So can we really do it? Mobile learning surely it’s just a buzz phrase that hooks in a bit of funding every now and again for various quirky projects?
I’ll be speaking next week at the Mimas (The University of Manchester) Mobile Learning: Telling Tales event on the subject of “Changing Gear - Implementing Mobile Learning”. [...]