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This bulletin provides an overview of the current state of mobile learning in higher education , speculates on future directions , and suggests questions that educators might ask of thems…

Key Takeaways Giving students hands-on experience of field work with mobile tablet PCs loaded with visualization software facilitates active learning and integration of complex …

Key Takeaways Mobile technology offers the ability to combine immediate access to information and location through augmented reality and geotagging . Dickinson College st…

Presentation at the 2010 ECAR Symposium, December 7, 2010, in Carlsbad, California. Billions of people all over the world carry a mobile device while traveling, be it a cell phone or a portable c…

Due to the ability of cell phone providers to use cell phone towers to pinpoint users’ locations, the increasing popularity of GPS capabilities in cell phones, and the rise of cell phones for I…

Rich mobile applications (RMAs) provide powerful opportunities for institutions to interact with students, faculty, and staff via the smartphones in their pockets. RMAs integrate with and levera…

Key Takeaways Web-enabled smartphones (and their applications) have converged with cloud computing to change the ways people interact with each other and their environments. The academi…

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday, January 23, 2012 that police must get a search warrant before they attach a GPS device to a suspect’s car.  The decision, however, is also n…

Today, the United States Supreme Court released a decision that is being hailed as a victory for personal privacy. See: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1259.pdf …

Location-aware applications deliver online content to users based on their physical location. Various technologies employ GPS, cell phone infrastructure, or wireless access points to identify whe…