Emerging Practice in a Digital Age: A guide to technology-enhanced institutional innovation is a newly published guide from JISC.

The guide is available at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/digiemerge.

To augment this guide, JISC infoNet is developing a Mobile Learning infoKit with version 0.1 of this resource now available at http://bit.ly/mobilelearninginfokit.

The Mobile Learning infoKit is a practical guide for educational institutions planning to implement mobile learning initiatives. At launch, it comprises a wiki-based resource collating information and guidance from JISC and others sources. It will develop to include a section on future trends, incorporate additional examples, and be made available in a variety of formats.

If you have any questions or feedback about the Mobile Learning infoKit, please get in touch with Doug Belshaw at JISC InfoNet via doug.belshaw@northumbria.ac.uk.

This review has been commissioned by JISC to review the literature on the use of mobile and wireless technologies for learning and teaching in UK further and higher education.
The review will inform the development of a new ‘Innovative Practice’ publication to build upon earlier ‘Innovative practice with e-Learning’ publications from JISC

Mobile and Wireless Technologies Review is available in a number of formats at: http://mobilereview.jiscpress.org

This RSC London case study for the Excellence Gateway, focuses on the whole-organisation approach to improving teaching and learning at Lewisham College, and how through personalisation and mobile learning, this approach is being realised in practice.

Read how the College sets out to create a:

• stronger sense of responsibility and ownership among learners of the outcomes of their programme of study
• clearer distribution of responsibility within the management of courses
• more defined approach to individualising student programmes.

Lewisham College: Personalisation and mobile learning at the heart of the learning strategy

The Learning and Skills Network announced the colleges who have made successful bids for MoLeNET phase 3 at the Handheld Learning Conference earlier this week.

The successful colleges for this next phase of MoLeNET will each lead a consortium. They include three from the London region, Ealing, Hammersmith and West London; West Thames and Working Men’s College.

Jill Attewell, project director for the LSN said, “We are determined to leave a lasting legacy in the use of mobile learning in further education and we will share the lessons learned across the whole sector.”

Registration is now open for the Mimas Mobile Learning: Telling Tales one day conference on 09 July at the University of Westminster. 

The day will showcase how mobile technologies are being used by teachers to enhance learning, both in the classroom and on the move. Aimed at teachers and lecturers, learning technologists or anyone using or thinking about using mobile devices in education.

There is no charge for this event but places are limited, so please book early to avoid disappointment.Details of the event, and a link to the booking form are available at:

http://www.mimas.ac.uk/news/mob09/

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