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Entries Tagged "Mobile Phones"

Math4Mobile: Design & Implementation Challenges

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Tags: collaborative thinking, computerized tools, Fit2Go, Graph2Go, Math Education, math4mobile, Mathematics, Mobile Phones, Quad2Go, Sketch2Go, VisualMath
Posted in Affordable Technology | Comments Off on Math4Mobile: Design & Implementation Challenges

Learning with Mobile Devices Somewhere Near the Bottom of the Pyramid

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Tags: Africa, Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Base of the Pyramid, Funders, ICT, John Traxler, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Pilots, Policy Makers, South Africa
Posted in Affordable Technology | 4 Comments »

Affordable Technologies for Supporting Learning and Collaboration in Africa

Monday, July 4th, 2011

Tags: Affordable Technology, eTransform Africa, ipad, Laptops, Mobile Phones, OLPC, Policy Makers
Posted in Affordable Technology | 16 Comments »

EMIS opportunities and challenges for mobile data collection and dissemination

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Tags: Broadband, EMIS, GATHER, Ghana, GIS, ITU, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phone, Mobile Phones, Mobiles4Dev, PDA, Shem Bodo, SMS, Text Message, Uganda
Posted in Education Management Information Systems | 11 Comments »

Assessing the Impact of iPads on Education One Year Later

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

Tags: App Market, Battery Life, Consumption Device, Educational Device, eTextbooks, GarageBand, Instant On, ipad, iPad Usage, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Sam Glicksman
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 13 Comments »

eReaders will transform the developing world – in and outside the classroom

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Tags: Curious George, Digital Content, download books, e-Books, e-reader, Ghana, kindle, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Publishers, Random House, tablet devices, worldreader
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 12 Comments »

What is the Potential Impact of the iPad, Kindle, and other Tablet Computers in Education?

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Tags: administrator, children, Classroom, Developing World, Education, ICT4E, ipad, kindle, Learning, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, nook, slide2learn, students, Teachermate, Teachers
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 32 Comments »

From Illiteracy to mCommunity, Jokko Initiative Empowers Women with mLearning

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Tags: Basic literacy, Community Forum, Jokko Initiative, mCommunity, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, numeracy, RapidSMS, SMS, Text Messaging, Totstan, Wolof
Posted in mEducation Initiatives | 2 Comments »

SMS4Learning: Supporting healthcare providers through FrontlineSMS:Learn

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Tags: Forgetting Curve, FrontlineSMS:Learn, Health Workers, Healthcare Education, Jhpiego, Learning Reinforcement, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, SMS, SMS4Learning, Text Messaging
Posted in mEducation Initiatives | 6 Comments »

Yoza Excites African Teenagers to Love Reading Using Mobile Phones

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Tags: Kontax, literacy, m4Lit, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, MXit, Shuttleworth Foundation, Sisterz, South Africa, Steve Vosloo, StreetSkillz, Teen Literacy, Teenagers, Yoza
Posted in mEducation Initiatives | 3 Comments »