Podcasts, Mobile Learning, and Handheld and Mobile Computing

This forty-eight minute podcast presents a session from the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conferece. The session, "Interactive Services on Mobile Devices for Higher Education," consists of a panel from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington discussing a new initiative to develop and test a wide range of information services accessible through mobile devices. This session compares the relative costs and advantages of applications based on SMS text messaging, WAP browsers, and Java MIDlets as well as the structuring of the relationship between the faculty start-up and the institution to develop and pursue the resulting initiatives. A PDF is also available for this session.

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This 14 minute podcast features an interview with Lisa Hinchliffe, Head of the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It was recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hinchliffe was co-presenter for a session entitled, "Moving to Mobile: Exploratory Services and Applications in Libraries".

Cell phones and other mobile devices are ubiquitous and offer increasingly robust operating systems, user interfaces, and hardware sophistication. The potential of these devices for accessing the richness of library and information content, services, and applications provided is largely unrealized. This is particularly unfortunate in considering library outreach to undergraduate students. Several projects are in development at the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to explore possibilities for communication, content delivery, and instruction through mobile devices.

This is another podcast related to ELI’s upcoming Spring Focus Session on mobility and mobile learning. Hosted in conjunction with the University of Maryland–College Park, the event will take place on March 29-30, 2006, at the Inn and Conference Center–University of Maryland University College.

The interviews we are podcasting in relation to the session are intended to shed more light on some of the issues that will be discussed during the event. In this conversation, I am joined by Julie Little and Matt Gray in discussing the development of mobile learning at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. We also talk about how the integration of mobile technologies into Matt’s course provides a specific example of the university’s success in this area.

In addition to interviews like this one, ELI also plans to capture and post presentation audio from the focus session. Both the interviews and session audio will be posted under the following tags:

ELI 06 Spring Focus Session

ELI 2006 Spring Focus Session: Mobility and Mobile Learning

This interview continues the series of discussions the ELI is podcasting in relation to its 2006 Spring Focus Session, Mobility and Mobile Learning: The Next Phase of Anytime, Anywhere Learning, scheduled for March 29-30 at the Inn and Conference Center–University of Maryland University College.

In this conversation, Marilyn Lombardi discusses the Duke University Digital Initiative, which was originally known as the Duke iPod Project. Over the course of the interview, Marilyn provides an overview of the program, its successes and challenges, and the lessons learned that led to its transition from the iPod Project to the Digital Initiative. She also addresses issues institutions should consider in pursuing mobile learning projects.

Marilyn Lombardi is a senior research scholar in Duke’s Information Science and Information Studies (ISIS) program as well as a senior strategist in the university’s Office of Information Technology. She also serves as a Scholar-in-Residence with the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.

In addition to interviews like this one, ELI also plans to capture and post presentation audio from the focus session. Both the interviews and session audio will be posted under the following tags:

ELI 06 Spring Focus Session

ELI 2006 Spring Focus Session: Mobility and Mobile Learning

On March 29-30, ELI will host its 2006 Spring Focus Session, Mobility and Mobile Learning: The Next Phase of Anytime, Anywhere Learning, at the Inn and Conference Center - University of Maryland University College in Adelphi, MD (adjacent to College Park). In conjunction with the event, we are conducting a series of podcast interviews to get a better understanding of mobility and mobile learning issues.

In this interview, Gardner Campbell joins me to discuss the rapid growth of mobility in American society and the related expansion in higher education's interest in mobile learning. Gardner is the Assistant Vice President for Teaching and Learning Technologies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA.

In addition to interviews like this one, ELI also plans to capture and post presentation audio from the session. Both the interviews and session audio will be posted under the following tags: