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Claro publishes to standards compliant HTML, JavaScript, and CSS - taking full advantage of HTML5 when supported by a device's browser, and intelligently adjusting for older browsers that do not support it.   All of Claro's authoring features can be used to create engaging and interactive courses for delivery on any platform or device - desktops, smart phones or tablets.  

Ninety-seven percent of students enter college with cell phones, yet few universities leverage this ubiquity for teaching and university life. Colleges have two choices: continue to treat mobile devices as a nuisance, or embrace them by leveraging their mobile learning capabilities. ACU's expanded view connects academic, social, and infrastructural m-learning applications. View Quicktime file (small) of Rankin, Saltsman, Dickson "A Campus-Wide Approach for Mobile Learning with iPhones"

Connected Summit 2009 - Podcasts and Presentations Collection of downloadable videos and pdf files from all of the keynotes, spotlights, and class tracks at the ACU Connected Summit, February 2009 Mobile Collaboration: Redefining the Classroom-- Bill Rankin and Kyle Dickson, EDUCAUSE ELI Meetings 2010 Campus-Wide Approach for Mobile Learning with iPhones--Bill Rankin, Kyle Dickson, and George Saltsman, EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2008 ACU Connected: the iPhoneand handheld learning--Bill Rankin and Kyle Dickson

Third-year undergraduate nursing students and first-year master's entry clinical nursing students received an iPod Touch. The device provides students with mobile applications that give them information they'll need in the classroom and at the bedside, as well as an app to help them prepare for the nursing board examination.   The apps include:   Nursing Central Provides everything the nurse needs - nursing assessment, nursing diagnoses and nursing procedures. It includes the Davis Drug Guide, lab and diagnostic tests, a diseases and disorders reference, and Taber's Medical Dictionary. There is also a Medline Journal citation and study-abstract explorer.   Medical Spanish Translates English questions and phrases into Spanish to support Spanish-speaking patients. With Hispanics now constituting nearly half the population in Southern California, having the ability to communicate successfully with patients is critical to delivering the proper care. The app includes more than 3,000 phrases.   NCLEX Review This comprehensive review is what students study before taking the California Nursing Board Examination to become licensed as registered nurses.

Abeline Christian University mobile phone.

Read about mobiles apps that help faculty (1) Take Attendance (2) Collect Research Data (3) Mark-up PDF files (4) Use cameras as document scanners (5) View e-textbooks and (6) Plan lectures via mind-mapping apps

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The fastest way to create stylish real-time polls using mobile devices. Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print - anywhere, and show results in graphs via PPT or web.

Key Points: * Higher education historically has focused on instructors teaching rather than students learning, an ineffective approach that could seriously hamper the promise of mobile learning. * Successful student learning emerges from active engagement, connection to the students' prior knowledge, and simulation of real world experiences - all facilitated by engaging learners' senses through multimedia. * Higher education should stop thinking about these powerful mobile multimedia devices as only consumption devices - to live up to the promise of mobile learning, students should use them as production devices.

significant 'mobile learning' projects currently underway in the UK and tries to draw out their significance specifically for the education community.The introduction provides a working definition of mobile learning and then tries to identify the meaning and the limitations of the projects described specifically for a readership working in education.

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