Web Seminars Contributed by EDUCAUSE and Handheld and Mobile Computing

Mobile learning continues to focus on using portable computing devices such as laptops, tablet PCs, PDAs, and smart phones with wireless networks to extend learning spaces beyond the traditional classroom. Today's learning professionals, however, are finding that mobile learning initiatives need more than devices and connectivity to achieve success. This Web seminar will explore the current status of mobile learning, consider lessons learned from successful mobile learning initiatives, and suggest 10 steps learning professionals can take to prepare for the challenges and opportunities of learning anytime, anywhere.

New technologies are changing how we teach and learn in classrooms as well as informal learning spaces. Techniques such as blogging, podcasting, and videoblogging once used by tight-knit groups of techies have emerged as key strategies of established media corporations. Social software practices like tagging and intelligent searching are changing how we process information and can potentially change what happens in our formal and informal learning spaces.

Join us as we explore a cross section of emerging technologies and practices including gaming, mobile applications, social and collaborative applications, chat, and clickers. What are the potential implications of students equipped with these technologies? How might they disrupt our existing teaching and learning practices? Are there strategies to help incorporate new technologies into existing infrastructure? How can we ensure that new technologies promote deeper learning?