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Students are being encouraged to go wireless in lectures, using the University of Hull’s Wireless Interactive Lecture Demonstrator (WILD) to interact with their subject.
Dr Darren Mundy and his colleagues at the University’s Scarborough School of Arts and New Media are developing a range of cutting-edge software to encourage students to be more involved during lectures [...]

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In all parts of education and training, handheld devices such as games consoles, smart-phones, and net-books, connected to the Internet, are altering the experience of learners and the practices of teachers and trainers.
Successful deployment of such devices can have powerful beneficial effects on learning, and there are many examples of excellent practice; but education and [...]

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ITQ for Mobile Learning – Information Day
23rd September 2009
Birmingham
Recently e-skills launched a revised version of the user ICT qualification, ITQ and it has a number of units with a focus on mobile technology. LSN have been working with City and Guilds on the new version of ITQ to produce a related qualification, ‘ITQ for Mobile [...]

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Following the success of the MoLeNET projects in 2007/8, the Learning and Skills Network (LSN) have announced that 4 million pounds of capital funding will be available, from the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) in 2008/9, for a further round of shared cost mobile learning projects.
The fund will be for both new colleges and those [...]

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