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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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LSN invites bids for Mobile Learning Network Shared Cost Projects as part of the third phase Mobile Learning Network (MoLeNET).
If you work for an English FE college (including sixth form colleges, Independent Specialist Colleges and Specialist Designated Institutions but not school sixth forms) you can consider proposing a MoLeNET project.  Alternatively you might wish to [...]

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Several MoLeNet (Mobile Learning Network) events are coming up.  The events are free of charge to organisations currently involved in MoLeNET but can also be available for members of the Wider MoLeNET Community for a small fee. 
m-Assessment and m-evidence
The programme is designed so that participants will be able to use self-created ‘tips and hints’ on how [...]

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The Learning and Skills Network has introduced MoLeTV which will be targeted primarily to colleges in England, under the auspices of the Learning and Skills Council.
 
Use of this new digital media site enables registered users to upload media in most of the common formats – AVI, MP4, MP3, Windows Media and Quicktime. The uploaded media [...]

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MoLeNet M-Teaching and Learning Event
Wednesday 28th January 2009 – LONDON            
Wednesday 11th February 2009 – LIVERPOOL
Aim
To extend the pedagogical understanding of all participants on how to provide good learning opportunities using mobile devices – the tools, techniques and underpinning practice.
The event is designed to be an engaging and fun session reflecting on the reason why we are [...]

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Thirty successful projects for the second phase of MoLeNET have been announced.  Congratulations to those organisations from Yorkshire & Humber!  They are:

Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education
Joseph Priestley College
Leeds College of Art & Design
The Sheffield College 

The Mobile Learning Network (MoLeNET) is a collaborative approach to encouraging, supporting, expanding and promoting mobile learning, primarily in [...]

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If you work for an English FE college (including sixth form colleges but not school sixth forms) you can consider proposing a MoLeNET project in response to an LSN Invitation to Tender (ITT).
Alternatively you might wish to join with other colleges/schools/learning providers to form a MoLeNET consortium that would propose a project in response to [...]

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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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