Mobile Learning

Welcome to the homepage of the Kaleidoscope Mobile Learning SIG

Mobile and contextual learning is a thriving research field. Europe has led the way through the MOBIlearn and Mobile Learning Framework 5 projects and the Kaleidoscope mobile learning initiative. The Mobile Learning SIG offers an opportunity to share new findings and technology, to develop joint methods and initiatives, and to reconceive learning for the mobile age. It will collate an extensive resource of news, documents, projects and provide a forum for researchers with an interest in research into mobile, contextual and ambient learning across Europe and beyond.

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N E W S

Call for chapter in mobile learning book: CALL FOR CHAPTERS FOR IGI GLOBAL BOOK :: BOOK title: "Architectures for Distributed and Complex M-Learning Systems: Applying Intelligent Technologies"...

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F E A T U R E D P R O J E C T

Project Leader: Marcelo Milrad

Institution: Växjö University

Title: AMULETS (Advanced Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning Environment for Teachers and Students)

In the AMULETS project we are exploring how teachers can develop and implement novel educational scenarios combining outdoors and indoors activities that use ubiquitous computing and mobile technologies together with stationary computers. Since June 2006, more than hundred elementary school children and eighteen teacher students from Växjö University have performed outdoor activities equipped with smartphones, PDAs and GPS devices in the field of natural sciences, history, geography and sports. The educational scenarios consisted of different stages with game like features. At the end of the outdoors learning sessions, all these activities can be reconstructed in the classroom using several visualization tools, including among others digital maps. These types of activities provide new opportunities for children, students and teachers to review and to continue the learning experience in the classroom, thus supporting different aspects of learning such as exploration, discussion, argumentation, collaboration and reflection. The AMULETS project is supported by the Swedish KK-foundation and Växjö University under the ICT and Teacher Training program - Project Young Communication (2006-2011)....

If you would like to contact the team then email marcelo.milrad at msi.vxu.se

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Featured Event:

Social Mobile Media Workshop will begin on 2008-08-01, at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA.

Further details of this and other events can be browsed and searched here.

Featured Researcher:

Mauro Cherubini - After a year in the department of Physics, Mauro Cherubini obtained a degree in Educational Studies from the third University of Rome (RomaTre) in...

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Featured resource:

A bibiography of useful mobile learning references can be downloaded in various forms here.

This site is intended to be an up-to-date topical resource for the European Mobile Learning Community. Please help us to achieve this by contributing your news items, events information and resources.

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