Mobile Learning

The Mobile Education Center of Excellence is a collaborative research project of experts from science and industry. This network considers both technological and didactic-methodical facets of the different forms of learning and teaching in the mobile internet. Besides the observation and documentation of current and future developments, the experts continues to drive forward their research work on mobile learning. In the following you will find posts on the activities of the Mobile Education Center of Excellence…

Femisapien - our new mobile learning team mate

Femisapien – our new mobile learning team mate

Our Femisapien and together with a RS Media Robosapien
WowWee Femisapien – the female robosapien
Today, the new assistance for our mobile learning activities has arrived. To ensure the sustainable tradition of Pediaphon and to continue the great exhibition habits of Dr. Andreas Bischoff with his RS Media Robosapien, we took a WowWee Femisapien into the team. She will join [...]

Learntec 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany

Learntec 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany

Unser Stand, Interview zu Pediaphon, Vortrag Ebner/Schaffert und Robodance.
Int. Leitmesse für professionelle Bildung, Lernen und IT
Wie die letzten sieben Jahre zuvor, war ich auch dieses Jahr in Karlsruhe auf der Learntec unterwegs. Auf dem Gemeinschaftsstand der FernUniversität in Hagen hat unsere Forschungsgruppe Mobile Learning das Verbundprojekt “Mobile Learning – prozessorientiertes Informieren und Lernen in wechselnden [...]

Podcasting, Mobile Learning and Second Life

Podcasting, Mobile Learning and Second Life

Lecture and networking.
Best practice in podcasting
By invitation from Dr. Olaf Zawacki-Richter, today Dr. Palitha Edirisingha, a lecturer in E-Learning at Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester (UK), visited the University of Hagen. In the afternoons he hold a lecture on “Podcasting, Mobile Learning and Second Life: Some Pedagogical Applications to Support Student Learning in Higher Education”. [...]

Mobile Learning Day 2009, Hagen

Mobile Learning Day 2009, Hagen

Lecture at the Mobile Learning Day.
Exchange of experiences on M-Learning
The Mobile Learning Day 2009 on the 19th of November 2009 at the University of Hagen (FernUniversität in Hagen) was the second successful conference on the topic of Mobile Learning. The event addressed the scientific community as well as people from the area of e-learning and [...]

What is Mobile Learning

What is Mobile Learning

Learning at the bus stop, launderette, cafe and rest room.
Pupils explain where to learn with the cell phone
Today I got positive surprised by a short video (in German) about “What is Mobile Learning“. In a school project at the “Berufliche Schule Uferstraße” in Hamburg the pupils made this great movie with everyday situations in which [...]

Learning on the way with cell phone, netbook or PNA

Learning on the way with cell phone, netbook or PNA

Project site.
Further development of E- towards M-Learning
Educate oneself instead of reading newspaper: How can a truck driver meaningful use queue time for professional qualification, is one of questions of the joint research project „Mobile Learning – prozessorientiertes Informieren und Lernen in wechselnden Arbeitsumgebungen“, which is coordinated and scientifically supported by experts from the University of Hagen [...]

Learntec 2009, Karlsruhe, Germany

Learntec 2009, Karlsruhe, Germany

Vortrag von Matthias Kose, FernUni M-Learning Experten und der FernUni-Stand
Die 5te Mobile Learning Arena
Heute hat Learntec 2009 ihre Pforten für die Besucher geöffnet und ich wollte es mir nicht entgehen lassen, einige ‘alte’ Bekannte aus dem Bildungssektor wieder zu treffen. Und da ich freundlicherweise noch eine Freikarte von Sandro Mengel (FernUniversität in Hagen) bekommen hatte, [...]

Xing Mobile Learning Discussion Group

Xing Mobile Learning Discussion Group

Homepage of the discussion group
Exchange of Experiences on M-Learning
Some days ago we have started a Mobile Learning Discussion Group at the Business Network called xing.com. This group was opened on the 6th October 2008 and as one of the group moderatos I glad that today we already have 142 members. This platform is for information [...]

Personalkongress 2008, Hanover

Me :o)
Mobile Learning Workshop at Personalkongress
I was invited to hold a workshop on Mobile Learning in the health care’ (Mobile Learning in Gesundheitswesen – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Mobilfunktechnologien in der Personalentwicklung) within the Personalkongress 2008 – Kliniken im Umbruch, Herausforderung Personalmanagement, which was organised by the Hannover Medical School (MHH). I thought I wouldn’t [...]

Learntec 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany

PIC
FernUni booth, TV interview with Andreas, Mobile Learning lectures and the Mobile Learning Arena.
This year, for the first time, I was at the Learntec as a visitor and not as an exhibitor. I got a free ticket from Andreas Bischoff (the man behind pediaphon), so I just couldn’t resist to stop by for some hours. [...]