Category Archives: mobile learning

Mobile Web Apps: A Briefing Paper

By mark | March 2, 2011

I’ve recently written a JISC CETIS briefing paper on the topic of Mobile Web Apps.
With the growth and constant shift in the mobile space institutions could be forgiven for feeling a little lost as to how to best tackle the issue of delivering content and/or services that are optimised for mobile devices. Apple, Android, Blackberry, [...]

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Georgia Tech releases open standards mobile AR browser

By mark | February 15, 2011

Argon is a mobile Augmented Reality (AR) Browser for the iPhone. From the website:
Argon is the completely open standards augmented reality browser that allows rapid development and deployment of Web 2.0 style augmented reality content.
Argon renders a standards compliant combination of KML, HTML, CSS and JavaScript served via typical HTTP servers
Multiple simultaneous channels, analogous to [...]

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Mobile Tech meeting raises issues

By mark | June 24, 2010

I recently ran a JISC CETIS event on mobile technology at the University of Bolton and, it seemed to me, to be rather successful. Of course the day was packed, we ran over time and my session on AR at the end of the day was rushed and sketchy…but it nicely lines up some more [...]

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Mobile tech, web-apps & frameworks

By mark | June 24, 2010

One of the big questions around institutions throwing themselves into the mobile learning world is how do you cater for such a huge variety of handsets and operating systems? Tom Hume, Managing Director of Future Platforms (http://www.futureplatforms.com/) recently presented at the excellent Eduserv Symposium: The Mobile University. Tom pointed out that to reach 70% of [...]

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