{"id":335,"date":"2012-03-30T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2012\/03\/30\/mobile-learning\/"},"modified":"2012-03-30T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:39:00","slug":"mobile-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/mobile-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a workshop on mobile learning today, organised by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elearningalliance.org\/\">eLearning Alliance<\/a>. Eleven people attended, representing diverse organisations ranging from Lanarkshire Council to The Royal College of Surgeons.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-QEifY6IBKEE\/T3W9eAeDhJI\/AAAAAAAAKoU\/_871K94rOaQ\/s1600\/2012-03-30+11.51.32.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"384\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-QEifY6IBKEE\/T3W9eAeDhJI\/AAAAAAAAKoU\/_871K94rOaQ\/s640\/2012-03-30+11.51.32.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It was a good event, and I learnt a lot about current developments. The presenter highlighted the huge growth in Internet access via mobile devices, from 0.02% of web traffic in 2009 to 13% in 2011, reflecting the huge penetration of mobile phones among the general population (94%). He also went over some of the benefits of mobile learning (&#8220;m-learning&#8221;), which include convenience (you have it with you most of the time), cost (it&#8217;s cheaper than buying PCs and infrastructure), and well suited to delivering learning-on-demand.<\/p>\n<p>SQA was the first awarding body in the UK to deliver an entire course via mobile phone (the original Internet Safety award), and we have recently <a href=\"http:\/\/internet-safety-2012.info\/\">updated those materials<\/a> to look better on modern smartphones and tablet computers. I&#8217;m sure, in the coming years, we will provide many more qualification in this way.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about mobile learning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-learning.org\/\">here<\/a>. <a href=\"mailto:caroline.douglas@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Caroline<\/a> if you want to know more about the new Internet Safety award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a workshop on mobile learning today, organised by the eLearning Alliance. Eleven people attended, representing diverse organisations ranging from Lanarkshire Council to The Royal College of Surgeons. It was a good event, and I learnt a lot about current developments. The presenter highlighted the huge growth in Internet access via mobile devices, from 0.02% of web traffic in 2009 to 13% in 2011, reflecting the huge penetration of mobile phones among the general population (94%). He also went&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}