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Thursday, November 04, 2004
Forget wikis, blogs and other online learning tools -- one professor says the future of higher education is mobile. - Howard Rheingold, the Feature
"This generation entering our schools is immersed in cyberculture and is untethered, mobile and wirelessly connected. At colleges and universities around the world, the nomadic swarms are already arriving," says Bryan Alexander, codirector of the Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College in Vermont. The always-on, one-handed texting, instant-messaging, multitasking generation Professor Alexander welcomes into his classes are drawn to the kind of mobile learning he has been developing, or "m-learning," as he calls it. Over the years, Alexander has used online communities, blogs and wikis to teach Gothic literature, history of the Vietnam war and Arab culture. Now he's going mobile.
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