Monday, March 10, 2008
mLearning is Slowly Catching On
In the article published on The Journal website (http://www.thejournal.com/articles/21526), the author published statistics generated by a research firm (Ambient Insight http://www.ambientinsight.com/Default.aspx). The article indicated that the use of mlearning games will triple by the year 2012. The projected increase shows that there is a market for this type of product. If the projections are accurate, there will be a significant shift in the software and mobile device market as companies attempt to position themselves for a potential increase in revenue. As demand for mlearning increases, software companies (i.e., Adobe, Microsoft, etc.) will be driven to develop more tools and applications to assist software developers in their efforts to create applications on the mobile device platform. Also, mobile device manufacturers may be forced to come up with a standard platform for devices. It is going to be exciting to see how this plays out.
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It is interesting that there seemed to be a decline in the use of PDAs and PalmPCs. I have a PalmPC that I rarely use because as you said so much in either in my phone, or I just don't think about using it. I know in Nursing there have been multiple schools who have done research utilizing handhelds in the clinical arena to facilitate learning. Here is a website that talks about one program: http://www.slideshare.net/Cynthia.Russell/pdas-for-nursing-students-technology-at-your-fingertips/
KB
I am surprised about the decline of PalmPCs and PDAs. I have actually been debating buying one. Perphaps I will wait. I can definently do wihthout one a little while longer. I like the idea of the games in the cell phones being educational.
Elizabeth
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