Mobile learning in personnel training of university teachers

Author

Seppälä, Pauliina ; Sariola, Janne ; Kynäslahti, Heikki

Author_Institution

Educational Centre for ICT, Helsinki Univ., Finland

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

136

Lastpage

139

Abstract

In this article, we discuss why mobile learning is being introduced to the academic teaching environment. We also report experiences of a pilot project undertaken in connection with personnel training at the University of Helsinki. The aim of the the UniWap project is to develop the educational use of mobile technology and to find pedagogical applications beneficial for higher education. The project deals with the WAP technology to be tested, piloted and completed in order to facilitate teaching and learning at the university. An environment of activities has been developed in order to provide services for flexible teaching and studying.

Keywords

distance learning; mobile handsets; mobile radio; personnel; teacher training; UniWap project; University of Helsinki; flexible teaching; mobile learning; pedagogical applications; personnel training; university teachers; Databases; Education; Educational technology; Mobile handsets; Personnel; Technological innovation; Testing; Web sites; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education, 2002. Proceedings. IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1706-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WMTE.2002.1039236

Filename

1039236