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The view from the 'man' :) New report on mobile learning and another on trends.

Some suggestions for designing mobile websites along with relevant highered examples.

Post on what to consider when mobilising your website - and it states that Sites are better than Apps, no matter how cool they are!

"Australia went from lagging to leading the worldwide smartphone revolution in just one year, a major study by Google has revealed. Mobile internet usage by Australians now rivals that of PCs for activities like social networking and, soon, shopping, Google found."

Interesting first year project that develops multiple skills (teamwork, digital literacy, library search, empathy, etc) through geting students to create walking tours of campus for different audiences. Uses Google maps and social media.

A technical landscaping pilot on Open Access publishing of scholarly monographs to multiple devices - ebook, tablet, mobile.

Included in core 2.2 or installable in 2.x allows the system to decide which version (default, tablet, mobile) to serve.

Collection of mlearning resources & links

Guerrilla Pedagogy: A Hit-and-Run Guide to Mobile, Open-Source, Aggregated Course Design

Looks like a useful set of papers on learning and teaching online - design, tutoring, mobile, communities, assessment, social, etc

Nine evidence-based elearning guides:Tutoring on-line; Web-based course design; Learner acceptance of on-line learning and e-learning; Learning objects and repositories; Learning using mobile and hand-held devices; On-line communities; Technology-supported assessment; Learning environments; Using social software in learning.

This is great and especially the voice to text feature for Androids. Pity it only seems to run on Android and iOS at the moment.

Special jnl edn on mobile learning. Links to full text articles.

Videos of a talk on knowledge mobilisation - or How to connect university research with the outside world in order to benefit society.

Whirlwind tour through Social Media in pictures. Killer quote is that in late 2010 & 2011, the world went mobile.

"... wearable computers allow people to do things like google information straight into their eyeballs while chatting on the street corner - or project a map overlay on the street in front of them, labeling every store. Or turn the local vacant lot into a wonderland filled with Pokemon characters ready to do battle. This is an augmented reality scenario. Now our technology can actually do this, using smart phones as a crude mobile interface. In these demo videos below, we're getting a first glimpse of what happens when the internet comes out of the box and into the real world"