Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
www.mobilelearning.cl/eng/index.html
‘The objective of the project is to improve
the quality of education, by incorporating
mobile technology in the classroom, to
support the instructional process, the
assessment of educational contents
included in the school curriculum and the
teacher’s role regarding the classroom
management.
Mobile technology allows to increase
coverage, that is, the access that teachers
and students have to it in terms of the
amount of hours they can spend using it,
as well as the amount of students that may
use this device individually during the day.’
National Central University
Taiwan
http://www.cl.ncu.edu.tw/
en_web/research.htm
Global Public & Private Partnership
Platform (G4P) for Mobile Learning
Technologies is a collaboration between
the Ministry of Education, the National
Central University and local device and
software makers. Currently, over 100
schools with 35,000 primary and junior
high school students are involved in
the project.
Center for Highly Interactive
Computing in Education (Hi-Ce),
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
http://www.hand-held.hice-dev.org/
(including downloads and discussion
forums)
‘The Center for Highly Interactive
Computing in Education (Hi-Ce) develops
learner-centered software tools and
curriculum founded on the pedagogy
of inquiry, or project-based science.
Researchers work as partners with
teachers and administrators to integrate
technology into K-12 classrooms.’
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University of South Dakota
South Dakota, USA
http://www.usd.edu/pda/
First HE institution in the USA to require
incoming students to use hand-held
computers (Palm).
Pocket Eijiro
Japan
http://ojr.org/japan/wireless/
1080854640.php
‘The Pocket Eijiro site started in December
2002 with an English-Japanese, Japanese-
English dictionary. Now the site gets more
than 100,000 hits per day (data on
individual visits were not available), and
its subscribers number in the hundred
thousands. The service costs $1.53 per
month, plus tax and packet charges.’
Designed for mobile phones and consists
of a dictionary and quizzes designed to
take no more than five minutes.
Dudley Local Education Authority (LEA)
United Kingdom
Ambitious project to equip 20,000 school
children with Palm hand-helds and
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