The new Teen Gallery at the Centre Pompidou modern and contemporary art museum in Paris allows young visitors to easily access and share location and multimedia information by touching an NFC mobile phone to tags located around the gallery. 
Why don't we talk more about collaborative production of learning materials? Javiera Atenas has some theories (RT @ambrouk: What can be done to encourage universities to embrace OERs?
Via Simon Thomson Near field communication, or NFC - NFC is one of the current buzz terms in mobile and, whilst still in the early stages of adoption, is set to grow massively over the next couple of years. 
The OPAL project (http://www.oer-quality.org/ ) has examined the concept of open educational practices (OEP) over the last two years. In this regard, a number of instruments, including the OEP Guidelines and Registry have been developed. This debate will examine if this concept really represents a transformative evolution for teaching and learning, and if so how. Via Robert Farrow |
The BBC's Matt Danzico investigates how augmented reality mobile apps may help to change people's perceptions of the world around them. 
Taiwan's United Daily News is augmenting its editorial content through the mobile browser Aurasma.
Via Pekka Puhakka 
These new tools engage us all in various contemporary projects of shareable knowledge, hyper-connected communication and collective cognition. Our own constantly connected mobile device puts nearly infinite information at our fingertips in a dematerialized, timeless and placeless context. Strangely though, the fruits of this placeless and timeless mobility shift yield a seemingly tactile media (e.g., multi-touch) for chronological (e.g., blog) and geo-locative (e.g., check-in) tendencies. Via Nik Peachey 
Near field communication, or NFC, allows for simplified transactions, data exchange, and wireless connections between two devices in close proximity to each other, usually by no more than a few centimeters... http://asmarterplanet.com Video featuring, from IBM: Mike Wing, Andy Stanford-Clark and John Tolva. Over the past century but accelerating over the past coup... |
