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The term has been bandied about for years now. Mobile learning, aka m-learning, seems to be on everyone's lips but few people's mobile devices. Learning Circuits's associate editor Eva Kaplan-Leiserson talks to two of the field's foremost experts to sort the reality from the hype. What's currently working in m-learning, and why? What's been stopping its widespread adoption? And what's necessary to make it more pervasive?

ICT and Trends in Life-Long Learning The Web 2.0 provides ample facilities to let learning-minded citizens to find each other and recruit experts

"Google is working on Google Visual Search, a mobile application that lets users take a picture of a location from their Android-powered smartphone and trigger a Google search that pulls up information associated with the image. The search engine revealed its plans on CNBC's "Inside the Mind of Google," segment Dec. 3. Pairing digital ads, possibly from Google's AdMob acquisition, is a natural way to make money from visual mobile searches. Many people take pictures from their increasingly improving smartphone cameras daily, but imagine if those users could leverage the images as search tools instead of simply fun pictures to look at."

In March 2010 the report Mobile Augmented Reality voor het onderwijs has been published. CELSTEC researchers wrote this report (in Dutch) for SURFnet/Kennisnet. It's a technology survey of augmented reality on smartphones and its possibilities for education.

Despite the fact that education systems have been heavily investing in technology since the early 1980s, international indicators on technology uptake and use in education are missing. This book aims to provide a basis for the design of frameworks, the identification of indicators and existing data sources, as well as gaps in areas needing further research. The contributions stem from an international expert meeting in April 2009 organised by the Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning, in co-operation with OECD (CERI), on benchmarking technology use and effects in education. The contributions clearly demonstrate the need to develop a consensus around approaches, indicators and methodologies. The book is organised around four blocks: contexts of ICT impact assessment in education, state-of-the-art ICT impact assessment, conceptual frameworks and case studies.

CFP Doctoral Consortium

Ulf Ehlers presentations

Proceedings of the 4th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques

"Abstract: In our rapidly changing technological society, formal training alone cannot meet the need for development of working individuals. Self-directed learning is seen as a solution for adult learners to keep up with these changes."

"The Sloan Consortium is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of education. Membership in the Sloan Consortium provides knowledge, practice, community, and direction for educators. Originally funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sloan-C is now a non-profit, member sustained organization."

Some computer science issues in ubiquitous computing

"The aim of this foresight activity is to contribute to this vision building process by providing a range of imaginative visions on the key components of creative and innovative learning in Europe in 2020 (also labeled Learning Spaces in 2020)."

"On demand of IST Advisory Group (ISTAG). Aim of ISTAG has made consistent efforts to get a higher level of focus and a higher pace of development of Europe in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The aim was to describe what living with Ambient Intelligence might be like for ordinary people in 2010. Particular attention was given to technological and socio-economic bottlenecks that would hinder the development of a AMI in Europe."

"All the R&D outputs from our projects, eg context, objectives, methodology, results from trials, lessons learnt, development potential."

"IST at the service of a changing Europe by 2020: Learning from world views"

An agenda for change in Education and Lifelong learning beyond 2010 proposed by the Learnovation project

"e-Adept is a unique cooperative project within the areas of personal navigation, travel planning and safety. The aim of the project is to provide a mobility enabling solution to increase pedestrian accessibility for elderly people and people with disabilities. "

The Well Connected City: How innovation in services and mobility contributes to sustainability.