Mobile Learning: Solutions and Challenges
October 6, 2010
Marguerite Koole · Athabasca University, Canada
Fatma Elsayed Meawad · German University, Cairo, Egypt
Inge de Waard · Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerpen, Belgium
This session will describe two mobile learning projects:

1. A project piloting a Java-based system called "MobiGlam". Through MobiGlam, students accessed Moodle course modules on their mobile devices. Evaluations from this 2008 project highlighted some interesting challenges in the Canadian context.

2. A mobile learning project of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium and the Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander von Humboldt, Lima, Peru. Twenty physicians, deployed in urban peripheral HIV/AIDS clinics in Peru, used Smartphones with portable solar chargers to access 3D simulations of interactive clinical cases, discussion forums, and quizzes.
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