eLearning at New College

Stephanie Warren and I are off to Telford tomorrow for MLearn 2008. I’m just going for the day and will be attending a workshop run by Palitha Edirisingha from the University of Leicester on how student learning can be enhanced by the use of podcasting. Stephanie, brave soul that she is, is presenting a paper on the Wednesday on the MyPodcast project. On Tuesday she’ll be attending a pre-conference workshop ‘Evaluating Mobile Learning: Approaches, Methods and Tools.’ Watch this space for a report on our trip.

Lucky first-years at Abilene Christian University will each be getting an iPhone/iPod Touch as part of their enrollment package which they can use to “receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, get directions to their professors’ offices, and check their meal and account balances” (hat-tip the Mobile Learning blog).

They have produced a video podcast to show off what can be done with this mobile learning platform, and its pretty innovative stuff. Check it out at the iTunes U section of the iTunes Music Store, under Abiline Christian University – the video is called ‘Mobile Learning’ (connected) and there are a number of download formats including a 400-odd MB HD version! You can also view it in Flash format here.