Grush, M. (2011) Creating Your Institution’s Mobile Learning Strategy Campus Technology, December 7
If you can put up with the really irritating web advertising in this online journal, this article provides a useful description of Northeastern University‘s mobile learning strategy. The main message: link mobile learning to the broader academic goals and priorities (such as, in Northeastern’s case, its focus on experiential learning.) It’s mainly about integrating the iPad into more traditional teaching.
The article also provide useful links to other institutions’ mobile strategies, e.g. Abilene Christian, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Tufts and Stanford. If you don’t have an institutional strategy yet, these provide some good ‘benchmarks’ to follow.
See also Mobile Learning at Northeastern, their web site on mobile learning.
Dr. Tony Bates is the author of eleven books in the field of online learning and distance education. He has provided consulting services specializing in training in the planning and management of online learning and distance education, working with over 40 organizations in 25 countries. Tony is a Research Associate with Contact North | Contact Nord, Ontario’s Distance Education & Training Network.
