Mmmm…mLearning!

Hi all, it’s your friendly neighborhood OLLie, back again with another tidbit of information for all you great folks out in OnlineVille.
 
Here in the OLL, we’ve been looking into how to get a better understanding and usage out of mLearning and pass that on to the instructors here at the University (and anyone else who may be interested). 
 
What’s mLearning you ask?
 
Basically, mLearning stands for “mobile learning” and covers any and all means of education delivered through mobile devices.  For example, a student uses her cell phone to access practice drill questions for an upcoming test—that’s mLearning!
 
Usually, mLearning inspired instruction is designed in a way for easy access.  Design-wise, it’s clean and scaled down so that the user can easily maneuver through information seen on mobile devices’ smaller screens.  Its easy accessibility is also handy for those with slower dialup connections on their non-mobile devices. 
 
We have a portion of the OLL site dedicated for mLearning access as well.  If you go to the area of the site, you’ll see that its very basic, with only the areas listed that we think people might need to access via their cell phone, PDA, etc.
 
We’d love to hear from you!  If you have an idea for how you’d like to use mLearning or a suggestion for an addition to our mLearning access page, please post it in the OLLie Blog comments.
 
Happy surfing!