Archive for the 'Mobile learning' Category

Learn Spanish By Phone – A Pioneering New Service From SpanishPod

“SpanishPod has launched the Practice Plan, which connects students and professional Spanish teachers by phone at anytime, anywhere in the world. “
Shanghai, April 2, 2008 - From today, people will be able to practice their Spanish with a native Spanish teacher at anytime and anywhere thanks to a revolutionary new service available through SpanishPod.com. One-to-one […]

XS2China: Communicating in a Mobile World

ChinesePod users understand that learning Chinese is a fun and rewarding challenge. But what if you need to speak Chinese, like now? And you haven’t learned it at all yet? And the taxi driver is waiting for you to tell him where to go, in Chinese?
While in Amsterdam, co-founder and CEO Hank ran into some […]

Learn Spanish and Chinese with the iPhone

This is certainly a more modest event than the launch of the iPhone (and we hope we don’t steal too much of Steve Jobs’ thunder), but we are excited to launch our own mobile initiative today. Premium users can now access a variety of learning tools at m.spanishsense.com, and m.chinesepod.com.
The mobile sites provide…
a) Discussion, Dialogue, […]

Russ McGuire’s Law of Mobility

 
Well, since we’re all mobile, all the time this week, I have a blog I want to share with you. It’s called The Law of Mobility and it’s based on the author’s premise that ‘the value of any product or service increases with its mobility’. Hmmm.
Now this chap is no slouch. His name is Russ […]

M-Learning under the tree

Recently I talked about how m-learning will give us the freedom to learn wherever we please. Some people responded to the effect that: “But I can just take my book and go sit under a tree to read somewhere. Books (flashcards, etc) are just as portable. What’s the difference?”
Let me try to elaborate. Reading […]

8 Observations about Mobile Learning

 
Any portable (usually hand-held) device used to communicate over a wireless network has the potential for mobile-learning: cell phones, PDAs, laptops, etc. We believe the near ubiquity of these devices will bring mobile, or ‘m-learning’ into prominence in the next 2 to 3 years. (Actually, there are many other trends out there that suggest this […]

Mobile Testers Needed!

Learning with an iPod full of lessons offers tremendous benefits; freedom, convenience, efficient use of dead time, etc. I’m sure we can all remember our personal ‘epiphany’ moments, when we realized how valuable learning by podcast can be. That said, the iPod’s lack of a network connection means it is still fairly limited as a […]