Summer School Online Forum and mLearning

Celia Keenaghan describes how we will use this website online forum and an mlearning Ap from Wobego to engage summer school participants and members of the Network in further discussions.

Recursos tecnológicos para el aprendizaje móvil (mlearning) y su relación con los ambientes de educación a distancia : implementaciones e investigaciones.

Monográfico con el título: 'Web 2.0 : dispositivos móviles y abiertos para el aprendizaje'. Resumen basado en el de la publicación

EduMCA: an approach to Educational Mobile Content Adaptation

As the variety of mobile devices connected to the Internet growts there is a correponding increase in the need to deliver content tailored to their heterogeneous characteristics. At the same time, we watch to the increase of e-learning in universities through the adoption of electronic platforms and standards. Not surprisingly, the concept of mLearning (Mobile Learning) appeared in recent years decreasing the limitation of learning location with the mobility of general portable devices. However, this large number and variety of Web-enabled devices poses several challenges for Web content creators who want to automatic get the delivery context and adapt the content to the client mobile devices. In this paper we analyze several approaches to defining delivery context and present an architecture for deliver uniform mLearning content to mobile devices denominated eduMCA - Educational Mobile Content Adaptation. With the eduMCA system the Web authors will not need to create specialized pages for each kind of device, since the content is automatically transformed to adapt to any mobile device capabilities from WAP to XHTML MP-compliant devices.

Dispositivos móviles en la educación médica.

Monográfico con el título: 'Avances tecnológicos digitales en metodologías de innovación docente en el campo de las Ciencias de la Salud en España'. Resumen basado en el de la publicación

Desarrollo de habilidades cognitivas con aprendizaje móvil : un estudio de casos.

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Understanding mobile learning : devices, pedagogical implications and research lines

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Mobile Assisted Language Learning : A Literature Review

Mobile assisted language learning (MALL) is a subarea of the growing field of mobile learning (mLearning) research which increasingly attracts the attention of scholars. This study provides a systematic review of MALL research within the specific area of second language acquisition during the period 2007 - 2012 in terms of research approaches, methods, theories and models, as well as results in the form of linguistic knowledge and skills. The findings show that studies of mobile technology use in different aspects of language learning support the hypothesis that mobile technology can enhance learners’ second language acquisition. However, most of the reviewed studies are experimental, small-scale, and conducted within a short period of time. There is also a lack of cumulative research; most theories and concepts are used only in one or a few papers. This raises the issue of the reliability of findings over time, across changing technologies, and in terms of scalability. In terms of gained linguistic knowledge and skills, attention is primarily on learners’ vocabulary acquisition, listening and speaking skills, and language acquisition in more general terms.

Una app ibrida per l'apprendimento incidentale delle lingue straniere.

La tesi è strutturata in tre macro capitoli: • e-learning: questo capitolo tratta i tre principi su cui è basato questo progetto quali e-learning, m-learning ed incidental learning descrivendo l’evoluzione di questi tre concetti e analizzando ognuno di essi nel dettaglio partendo dal principio, l’e-learning. Verranno poi presentati dei progetti inerenti a queste tipologie di apprendimento per fare in modo di dare un’idea più chiara di questi concetti. • Specifiche di progetto: in questo secondo capitolo vengono descritte, ad alto livello, le tecnologie utilizzate per lo sviluppo di questo progetto, descrivendo, per ognuna, le caratteristiche e le applicazioni che essa ha avuto all’interno del progetto. • Implementazione: nel terzo e ultimo capitolo verranno descritte, e motivate, le scelte implementative adottate per sviluppare l’applicazione iLocalApp e verranno mostrati scorci di codice per rendere più chiaro l’utilizzo delle varie API e tecnologie all’interno del progetto.

InfoStation-based Adaptable Provision of m Learning Services: Main Scenarios

This paper presents an adaptable InfoStation-based multi-agent system facilitating the mobile eLearning (mLearning) service provision within a University Campus. A horizontal view of the network architecture is presented. Main communications scenarios are considered by describing the detailed interaction of the system entities involved in the mLearning service provision. The mTest service is explored as a practical example. System implementation approaches are also considered.