mLearning: Doing the unthinkable and reaching the unreachable

mLearning: Doing the unthinkable and reaching the unreachable

Tom Brown, University of Pretoria

This is a highly entertaining and enlightening presentation covering:

• mLearning in rural Africa
• approaches to mLearning
• examples of mLearning and lessons learned
• future learning paradigms
• envisioning 2010
• the future role of mobile learning

Tom Brown's comments about mLearning in rural Africa are instructive:

• mLearning has already started to play a very important role in Africa
• m Learning has brought eLearning to the rural communities of Africa - to learners that we never imagind as eLearning learners just a few years ago
• mLearning is the gateway to eLearning for most learners in Africa as the rapidly growing wireless infrastructure increasingly fulfills their access needs
• Africa is leapfrogging from an unwired, non-existent eLearning infrastructure to a wirless eLearning infrastructure. Numerous statistics in this regard are already significant proof of this process.

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( Keynote address: mLearning - The Future of Mobile?, Ericsson Education Conference, September 9th 2005, Dublin)