Eye on Learning

I think the day that most people will use their personal mobile devices is not too far away. Already, many are in their FB and Twitter accounts using their mobile phones. Many download music, movies and eventually, will do the same with academic podcasts (streamed videos and audio files) and slides for learning. mLearning will then become uLearning or ubiquitous learning. I found a few interesting slides on how mobile devices or mobile Internet will become part of our lives soon. This will of course, lead to mLearning. View the slides below: Designing Mobile Experiences View more presentations from Brian Fling . Mobile Trends 2020 View more presentations from Rudy De Waele . 2010 Mobile Influencers: Trend Predictions in 140 Characters, By TrendsSpotting View more presentations from Taly Weiss .

Can you imagine this....going to a meeting or a party and finding out who everyone is in the room through your mobile phone! Not only that. You can get their pictures and profiles and check to see if you want to message any of them! Read more at http:// technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3897340.ece . How many would be ready or comfortable with this I wonder? Will you? It looks like mobile technologies will change faster than any other technology we have known so far! Then there's the Google phone that we will see launched early 2009 using the Android mobile operating system. Read more in: http:// timesonline.typepad.com/technology/2008/12/expect-lots-mor.html

It was interesting to have attended the MCC2008 Prize Giving Ceremony yesterday at Hotel Istana in Kuala Lumpur. A significant portion of the audience were members of the media, the industry partners who acted as mentors to the participating teams, the finalists and members of the winning teams. Other attendees were representatives from the higher education institutions. There were three speeches, each highlighting a few interesting facts. What Mr Sandi Das, the CEO of Maxis Communications Berhad said was something to take note of. There are 20-23 million mobile phone users in Malaysia (out of 26-27 million population) and 4 out of 6 billion mobile phone users in the world are expected to use their mobile for information, learning, games and to perform banking and business related transactions. Thus, m-learning, m-entertainment, m-banking, m-commerce and so on. He mentioned that there is plenty of opportunity for Malaysians to create content for these uses! Part of the goals of ...