Mobile campus – standardization needed?
Focusing on the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, vendors and advocates consider the future of the mobile sector. In areas such as India, mobile phones are becoming an affordable and preferable platform for distance ed. They don’t have the phone poles and wires so the wireless infrastructure has exceeded what we have here in New Mexico. They often have excellent coverage in the middle of a jungle. So, in a true use what you have and make it work mentality, teaching is occurring on mobile phones.
Open Notebook Science
Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley serves as an example of an increasing number of scientists who are conducting their work online, where it can be viewed and reviewed by their peers and the public. They have utilized online applications to share ongoing experiments in real time and share the evolving data, laboratory notes and correspondence with all viewers. This takes collaboration and transparency to a whole new level.
Coming Soon: Blogs United
NITLE has integrated their three blogs Techne, Liberal Education Today, and Perspectives into what they are calling “one unified metablog.” The proposed benefits from this change include uniting all communication and interchange of ideas in one location. By sharing the space with professionals from different areas of expertise will share ideas and collaboration will be enhanced. Resources can also be shared. Will it become too large and cumbersome? Time will tell.
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