Jason Dunn
04-19-2002, 06:24 PM
<a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=48389">http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=48389</a><br /><br />Things like this are almost enough to make me want to go back to school - I'd be one bad mutha' with all my geek toys. ;-) Thanks to Rob Borek, another bad mutha', for finding this article.<br /><br />"A consortium comprised of post-secondary institutes and private companies have launched an R&D mobile learning pilot project to understand how students learn outside the classroom and with handheld devices. "It's not just: 'Here folks, have some technology and here's some curriculum you can access,'" said Jeff Zabudsky, dean, technology and curriculum innovation for Edmonton-based Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT). "What we've done is we've got a control group of students who will be using the technology and we're doing a very careful analysis of who learned better." <br /><br />Last summer, NAIT, along with Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, BlackBoard Inc, Compaq, Avaya, McGraw-Hill Ryerson and Bell Mobility got together to see how the proliferation of mobile devices is one day going to change how post-secondary students learn and are taught."