Sunday, March 3, 2002

BYU is planning an online community to support instructional designers, and has posted a short survey form to help them understand what the ID community wants. If you're a designer, or would use such a resource, let them know what you want. 12:06:45 PM     The Chronicle: 2 Canadian Colleges to Test the Effectiveness of Wireless Learning. Freshmen will use handhelds from Compaq (iPaqs, I assume) and wireless internet. The focus seems to be on supporting communication and providing electronic course materials, fairly pedestrian uses on a wireless net. Of course, the interesting thing is how having iPaqs 24/7 changes what students do. Folks on the University of Michigan have also been exploring the use of handhelds in middle school science classrooms, and have some papers that discuss their use. 11:49:06 AM

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