An outside view of ACU's distro of iphones to students and teachers based on interviews with the players. "The success of such programs depends both on the ubiquity and availability of the devices, as well as acceptance by the staff and students. The purely voluntary method of distribution and the freedom to use the device as a social and entertainment tool offered as part of the package both went a long way toward furthering the latter."

Athabasca University Press

A consideration of cognition in learning spaces.

Brian Lamb's notes on content management, the changing state of learning, rss feeds and what t all entails at the end of 2008. Nicely linked.

Changes in technology and the concepts of learning objects.

The recently launched Oosah is another service that aims to provide services ‘in the cloud’ for the emerging class of mobile internet devices.

Jill's motes on Ling's presentation: His entire presentation, The role of mediated ritual in mobile communication, is online - so you can read the slides yourself - there are a lot of useful statistics and touchpoints. Here are some notes.

Ways for libraries and librarians - and by extension, students - to use twitter.

Mark Bernstein provides a short, illuminating little account of why symbolic-analytic work relies heavily on (a) knowing your work environment, (b) being able to hack together tools on the fly, and (c) situating both of those into a broader rhetorical pur

An attempt to recontextualize what has been de-contextualized: After separating content from courses, we now seek to put them back together.

Special issue on mobile learning: usability issues, reading, etc. Agnes Kukulska-Hulme from the OU has a solid ov.