mlearn07 Conference
November 9th, 2007 by sridgway in Conference, mlearning
image by sridgway
Recently I had opportunity to attend the annual mlearn07 conference, the 6th international conference on mobile Learning, held 16–19 October 2007 at the Melbourne Exhibition & Convention Centre.
mLearning or moblie learning is not my of my strengths, so it was a great opportunity to learn more about what is happening in the area and how educators around the world are using networked mobile technologies to enable teaching & learning.
There was an incredible array of speakers, primarily from the higher education sector, however numerous presenters form the VET sector as well.
The thing I came away with was that mLearning has matured from being a novel concept to being embedded in teaching practice in many educational organisations. It was great to see examples of quality teaching & Learning practice and learn what technologies were used, what worked and how it was implemented.
While an attendee of the conference, I was also asked by the organisers to podcast the event. This was definitely a challenge as it was over 3 days and beyond the keynote speakers, there were 3 simultaneous break out panel sessions running at any given time. I will blog in more detail about how I achieved this, but basically I used 6 Ipod Nano’s and Belkin TuneTalk Stero recorders to capture the audio from each session.
I have podcast these recordings on my TalkinVTE podcast
The best thing is to use the mlearn07 tag below so as to filter only the conference posts
http://talkingvte.blogspot.com/search/label/mlearn07
For more information on the conference and images taken by participants see the links below.
Stephan Ridgway, Learning & Innovation
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