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Entries Tagged "Mobile Phones"

Let’s Get Informal: Mobile Phones for Adult Basic Education in West Africa

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Tags: Adult Literacy, Catholic Relief Service, Jenny C. Aker, literacy, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Niger, numeracy, Project ABC, Projet d'Alphabetisation a Base Cellulaire, SMS
Posted in mEducation Initiatives | 2 Comments »

Bridgeit: Empowering Teachers with Video via Mobile Phones

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

Tags: BridgeIT, FAWE, International Youth Foundation, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, MoEVT, Nokia, Tanzania, Teacher Training, Video
Posted in mEducation Initiatives | 2 Comments »

Learning British English – for the cost of a cup of Bangladesh tea

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Tags: audio lessons, Bangladesh, BBC Janala, BBC Learning English, BBC World Service Trust, BTRC, English Language, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones
Posted in mEducation Initiatives | 5 Comments »

mEducation: How Mobile Phones Can Empower Education in the Developing World

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Tags: BridgeIT, Classroom, Janala Project, Jokko Initiative, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, One Smartphone Per Teacher, Project ABC, Smartphones, SMS, Teachers
Posted in mEducation Initiatives | 15 Comments »

Book-Poor, but Mobile Phone-Rich? Look to M-Novels

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Tags: books, Connectivity, distraction, Kontax, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, mobiles, Nick Carr, Steve Vosloo
Posted in Literacies: Old and New | 4 Comments »

Wayan Vota: Technology in Schools, in Education, is Not Wasted

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Tags: FM Radio, ICT4E Assessment, Interactive Radio Instruction, IRI, Lesson Plans, Mobile Phones, Parent Teacher Association, Rote Learning, Spreadsheet, TV, Video, XO Laptop
Posted in Is ICT in Schools Wasted | 1 Comment »

Universal Platform Solution, Universal Curricula Problem

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Tags: eLearning, HTML, Mobile Phones, Taran Rampersad, Universal Curricula, Universal Platform, XML
Posted in eLearning Promise | 1 Comment »

Hidden Opportunity: Mobile Reading Solutions for the Blind

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Tags: Benetech, Blind, Eyes Free, LookingAid Mobile, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Mobile Speak, Nokia, Nuance Talks, OCR, Paul Lamb, Smartphones, Visually Impaired
Posted in Assistive Technology | 5 Comments »

2010 Trends: Alternate Computing Emergence and Convergence

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Tags: Computers, Convergence, Intel, Mark Beckford, Mobile Phones, NComputing, Netbooks, OLPC, Windows Multipoint Server
Posted in 2010 ICT4E Trends | 30 Comments »

Computers Are Better than Mobile Phones, For Now

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Tags: Alan, Alex Twinomugisha, Chansa, J Tim Denny, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Shabani, Todd Diemer, Weziwe Sikaka
Posted in Mobile Phones and Computers | 2 Comments »