This is the website for the International Association for Mobile
Learning.
The aim of the site is to support the worldwide community of mobile
learning research and practice.
For further details, contact the IAMLearn President, Mike Sharples
Welcome to The International Association for Mobile Learning (IAMLearn)
IAMLearn is a membership organization to promote excellence in research,
development and application of mobile and contextual learning. It
organizes the annual mLearn international conference series and manages
the website to collate and disseminate informaiton about new projects,
emerging technologies, and teaching resources.
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N E W S
Google Predicts Demise of the Desktop: "John Herlihy, Google's VP of Global Ad Operations, has claimed that desktop PCs would become irrelevant" in three years down the line." (Elliott Masie's Learning TRENDS newsletter, March 5th 2010)...
Further details of this and older news items can be accessed here. If you are an IAMLearn member, feel free to post your own news items (these will be moderated and added).
F E A T U R E D P R O J E C T
Project Leader: Tony Fisher, University of Nottingham
Title: Comparison of mobile technologies for language learning
A study of vocabulary learning while reading compared three types of
mobile technology: paper books, e-books with dictionaries, and e-books
with adaptive software for vocabulary learning. The results showed small
vocabulary gains for all three conditions, with no significant
difference between the technologies. A survey and focus group
interviews indicated that the students failed to engage fully with any
of the technologies and while they found the papers book easy to use and
annotate, the mobile devices enabled them quickly to look up the
meanings of words. The additional functions of the adaptive device
offered some additional engagement, but did not substantially assist the
vocabulary learning.... If you would like to contact the team
then email tony.fisher@nottingham.ac.uk
Access details of further planned and ongoing
projects here
Featured Event:
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2010 will begin on 2010-03-19, at Porto, Portugal.
Further details of this and other events can be browsed and searched here.
Featured resource:
A bibiography of useful mobile learning references can be downloaded in various forms here.
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