JISC Mobile and Wireless Technologies Review
Advance services provide more tailored services for the support of mobile learning initiatives. JISC Mail, for example (www.jiscmail.ac.uk) would like to gather opinions on the types of apps and mobile developments those in the sector would like to see. A final JISC body to mention is JISC CETIS, the Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk). JISC CETIS “provides advice to the UK Higher and Post-16 Education sectors on educational technology and standards” and has a number of briefing papers and reports that may be of use to those developing mobile learning initiatives. In addition to the final reports from a whole host of JISC-funded mobile learning-related projects, the following relate either directly or tangentially (but importantly) to the theme of mobile learning:
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Podcast - Mobile Learning: Telling Tales (2009) - www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/08/ podcast85mobilelearning Mobile Enhancing Learning and Support (2008) - www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/ 2008/melasfinalreport Web 2.0 and Intellectual Property Rights (2008) - www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/ briefingpapers/2008/bpweb20iprv1 Podcast: mobile learning is the way of the future (2008) www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/ 2008/01/podcast25johntraxler Game-based Learning (2007) - www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/briefingpapers/2007/ pub_gamebasedlearningbp e-Portfolios Student Learning (2007) - www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2007/ epistlefinalreport Google Generation (2007) - www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/resourcediscovery/ googlegen Student expectations study: Findings from preliminary research (2007) - www.jisc.ac.uk/ publications/briefingpapers/2007/studentexpectationsbp
Reviewing JISC publications and other outputs since 2005 a clear evolutionary path is evident, both in terms of mobile devices and attitudes towards them for learning. The technological context for mobile learning was vastly different in 2005: the first Apple iPhone was two years away; the social networking site Facebook was small, largely UScentric and closed to those without an educational institution-provided email address; YouTube was founded in the February. These three have proved not only to be phenomenally popular in mainstream culture but have served as catalysts to the mobile technology sector and, in turn, to mobile learning.
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