One of the most popular topics in education technology these days is the subject of MOOCs, otherwise known as Massive Open Online Courses.
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If you're an online teacher, you are part of the mobile workforce. 
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April 22, 4:46 PM
Time is hard to find. Updating and learing new skills in the most time and cost effectine way is the way of the future. 
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According to this info graphic people are making Mobile devices their preferred medium of accessing the internet. 
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Es una estimación interesante y por lo que parece imparable. En mi opinión abre una brecha entre distintos niveles educativos en quanto a contexto y contenido. Muy interesante! Delete the scoop?
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Rebecca J. Hogue (2013) iPad Professional Development Program (iPDP), Proceedings of the 11th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning.
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University of Wisconsin – Stout sure does know how to make their students happy. Their new mobile app allows students to do everything from checking their grades to checking their laundry! An...
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I've been hoping for mobile integraton at Stout for sometime. Happy New Year! I'll be adding this to my iPhone and my Android Tablet Today! Delete the scoop?
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As learning practices and technology tools change, mobile learning itself will continue to evolve. For 2013, the focus is on a variety of challenges, from how learners access content to how the idea of a “curriculum” is defined.
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How many schools still have rules against using tablets and smart phones in class? This list might just open the eyes of the foot draggers. Delete the scoop?
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Using traditional instructional templates for mLearning or forcing old eLearning courses into mobile devices is like standing on the peak of a high mountain and just looking at the ground under your feet. If you don’t dare to raise your eyes and look beyond the obvious, you will miss the whole landscape; you will miss the full potential of that single, unique experience. Delete the scoop?
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Successful mobile learning initiatives require cultural change and a student-centric approach.
"Kids are the experts on the technology," Soloway says. "Teachers are the experts not on the content but on the pedagogy and classroom management. The two have to live together. They have to learn together."
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Mobile learning has been identified by the 2012 Horizon Report as a current technology in both higher edication and K-12 ed. Delete the scoop?
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Teacher 's Guide on Creating Personal Learning Networks. Via Susan Bainbridge Delete the scoop?
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Presentation Description: Mobile learning has transformed the way we learn. The features and apps allow learners to move around the classroom, which helps spark creativity and imagination. In this session, we will explore activities that get learners on their feet exploring, analyzing, and engaging with the concepts they are learning. These activities will use various features of mobile devices which include recording video, taking photos, and recording audio. We will also explore fun apps that allow students to be imaginative and creative. Delete the scoop?
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New guide helps educators integrate technology for classroom use. Rather than ban mobile devices in schools, shouldn’t we look for ways to responsibly and effectively integrate them? Does it make sense to rule out the educational benefits of cell phones, for instance, simply because we are concerned about the potential for misuse or distraction? If students are using these tools in their daily lives, shouldn’t they also be using them in school? Delete the scoop?
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Over the last few years K-12 schools and districts across the country have been investing heavily in iPads for classroom use. EdTechTeacher has been leading iPad professional development at many of these schools and we’ve seen firsthand how they approach iPad integration.
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Learn how cellphones, e-book readers, and tablets are getting kids engaged with learning, focused on working smarter, and ready for the future. Delete the scoop?
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A new guide shows beginner and veteran developers how to create e-learning materials for the iPad. Lectora today released its new manual Creating Content for iPads - A Designer's Guide. The guide walks users through a set of questions to determine their needs then creates a personalized reference tool they can use to create the iPad materials. Delete the scoop?
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Last year, with a fearless group of 10th graders in Katrina Kennett’s English class at Plymouth South High School, we attempted to transform the traditional research process to a completely paperless one using a fresh new cart of iPads. Via Anthony Beal Delete the scoop?
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Cell phones in the classroom—it’s a topic that generates much consternation among faculty. Are policies that prohibit their use enforceable? Are students texting in class? If so, how many? If a student is texting, does that distract other students? Are students using their phones to cheat? Are there any ways cell phones can be used to promote learning? The questions are many and the answers are still a long way from definitive. Delete the scoop?
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Mobile devices and applications are expected to have a significant impact on teaching and learning in the near future. Yet colleges and universities are currently facing severe budget constraints and discretionary funding is restricted for new initiatives.
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Clearly, students would like alerts regarding their online classes sent to their cellphones. (Me too!) I'd love to had the ability to text my students from within a CMS. I know I could probably set something up using a Google tool, but simply having text as a built in option just like email would be great. Add to that, the ability to program reminders and you have a hit feauture. (Yes, I could do this by getting everyone to subscribe to a Google Calendar, but with each new layer of subscriptions and a passwords you add a barrier to communication. This article offers an excellent overview of what students want. (Is it really time for Higher Ed to pay attention to their customers? Shouldn't services like this come (as tuition goes up and class sizes increase)? Delete the scoop?
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We have compiled the 50 best eLearning posts of 2012 from our blog. It’s a chance for you to catch up on some interesting stuff you might have missed the last year. And for us, it’s a time to relook at the posts that trended on twitter and other social channels, and were loved by our readers. The posts are broadly divided into 3 categories – Mobile Learning, Learning Management System and Learning & Technology. Delete the scoop?
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How has mobile learning impacted teaching and learning in 2012, and what do educational leaders see as the next intriguing directions for mLearning? Delete the scoop?
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Stephanie Hedge is a graduate student in the Department of English at Ball State University. You can follow her on twitter at @slhedge. I present this post with a two caveats: first, this post is written with iPads in mind (particularly as I discuss apps), because that’s what I use, but the basic principles hold for any tablet, including the neat-o Microsoft Surface. Secondly, I recognize that tablets can be prohibitively expensive for graduate students. However, new advances in tech are bringing down prices, and some schools may provide a tech budget for students. Check what kinds of devices are available to you! Although the cost can be high, I find the flexibility and utility of an iPad to be well worth the investment. Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/teaching-tablets#ixzz2DXpCoLQr Delete the scoop?
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Mobile learning has occupied a space within e-learning; at its inception it was largely a stopgap effort to provide digital distance education even when there was no connectivity, in places such as submarines and forward bases. Delete the scoop?
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So many ruminations on what smartphone technologies offer the wired classroom begin with some permutation of how, at first, cell phones are often the bane of teachers’ existence because they cause disruptions. This isn’t one of those ruminations. Let’s just go straight to the suggestions, shall we? Delete the scoop?
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Not even one decade ago, educators considered cell phones and laptops a most egregious classroom distraction. These days, though, many tech-savvy teachers actively try to incorporate them into engaging lessons rather than snatching them away. Delete the scoop?
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Whether you're the parent of a child with a reading disability or an educator that works with learning disabled students on a daily basis, you're undoubtedly always looking for new tools to help these bright young kids meet their potential and work through their disability. While there are numerous technologies out there that can help, perhaps one of the richest is the iPad, which offers dozens of applications designed to meet the needs of learning disabled kids and beginning readers alike. Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing apps out there that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle. Delete the scoop?
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Given the extremely low completion rates of most moocs (about 10%) I'm guessing that exit interviews will be slim to none.
Bottom line, I don't think this product is needed or will be used? what do you think?