Newsletter: March 2012

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Dear all,

We hope you enjoy reading this second edition of our newsletter (below and in the attached PDF), with highlights, news, projects and resources related to using mobile learning for reaching the Education For All goals. Please do not hesitate to post your comments on the mailing list and tell us what you would like to see in the next edition.

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UNESCO Mobile Learning Team

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UNESCO Mobile Learning Newsletter, March 2012

Highlight: Mobile Technologies and Teacher Development

UNESCO Workshop on Mobile Technologies and Teacher development

In 2012 UNESCO will launch, in partnership with Nokia, four pilot projects to explore how mobile technologies can be used to support teaching and teachers’ development in Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan and Senegal. To facilitate the conceptualization of project action plans, UNESCO, in cooperation with Nokia, is organizing a workshop on Mobile Technologies and Teacher Development from 29-30 March 2012 at its headquarters in Paris, France. Participants will include representatives of the four countries, international experts in mobile learning, representatives of Nokia, and members of the UNESCO ICT in Education Team.

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/education-events/?tx_browser_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=6133&cHash=92b54f04be

News & Events

EFA Crowdsourcing Challenge n°4: Improving the quality of education

The EFA Crowdsourcing Challenge, now in its fourth stage, is eliciting ideas about how mobile technologies can improve the quality of education.

Goal on Focus ends: March 12, 2012 at 5pm EET (GMT+2)

http://www.ideasproject.com/community/en/efa/qualityeducation

Winner of the monthly idea award for the EFA Challenge n°3: Youth and Adult Learning Needs is « Education Time Bank » by Eric Kotonya
Education time bank is a business model for open exchange of educational and tutoring services. This idea promotes a rate and reward system to help students get specialized and personalized expert training . Eric Kotonya will receive a Nokia Lumia 800 as a reward for his proposal.

http://www.ideasproject.com/community/en/efa/learning

2012 UNESCO & CoSN International Symposium
mLearning: Exploring the Power of Mobility to Transform Learning

CoSN's 11th Annual International Symposium, jointly organized this year with UNESCO, brought together leading education leaders, policy makers and key thought-leaders from around the globe to explore policies and practices that can bridge classrooms with mLearning to achieve more cohesive learning environments for young people.

http://www.cosn.org/Events/2012CoSNConference/InternationalSymposium/tabid/9405/Default.aspx

Programmes & Projects (UNESCO and non UNESCO)

Worldreader

Last year Worldreader began to investigate the development of a book app for mobile phones. The app will provide people an innovative way to read books on mobile phones.

http://www.worldreader.org/2012/02/13/testing-a-new-platform-for-books-for-all/

Orange to provide free access to Wikipedia in developing countries

Wikimedia and Orange announced a deal to provide more than 70 million people with mobile access to Wikipedia at no cost. Through the deal, subscribers in remote and urban areas of Africa and the Middle East (AMEA) will get to use Wikipedia through mobile phones without incurring data fees.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2012/01/how-will-free-wikipedia-access.php

Resources (UNESCO and non UNESCO)

Edutech
A World Bank Blog is exploring issues related to the use of information and communication technologies to benefit education in developing countries.

http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/category/tags/mobile-phones

Accelerating the Adoption of mLearning: A Call for Collective and Collaborative Action

This report, written by the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on ICT, examines how Mobile Learning can promote positive socio-economic growth.

http://www.weforum.org/reports/accelerating-adoption-mlearning-call-collective-and-collaborative-action

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