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17/08/2021

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09/12/2013

Love it or loathe it, 1 of the grand challenges for education in developing countries is how to integrate technology in a cost effective way that has impact.

04/12/2013

Raise of the smartphones! More smartphones are in everyone’s pocket. Everyone will be able to share cat videos and argue with strangers (maybe even learn something). However almost all what we hope will come from the “smartphone revolution” is actually already possible with the feature phones peop...

14/11/2013

Blog post on what we known and don't know in mobile learning

It is the question that will not die and doesn’t evolve as it should. Can technology improve learning outcomes? We have known for decades that certain things can help in the learning process: computer aided instruction, sesame street, reminders, feedback since way before the proliferation of mobil...

07/11/2013

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04/11/2013

Mike's article on how SciDev.net article on mobile learning failures doesn't stack up

In this article on SciDev.net titled “How teachers in Africa are being failed by Mobile Learning” Niall Winters asserts that:

30/10/2013

Ustad Mobile coming to smartphones too! - Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone and iOS as well as support for all major Java enabled feature phones (that's almost all $30+ phones)

Compatibility work is blasting ahead! Shows the app launcher on the Nokia 110 and a Sony Xperia Android 4.0 phone

20/10/2013

An article on ICTWorks covering Ustad Mobile: http://www.ictworks.org/2013/10/15/ikea-is-my-teacher-for-mobile-learning-application-development/

01/10/2013

Ustad Mobile is growing! It's going to be compatible with almost all feature phones and smart phones soon so you can make education content once and use it anywhere! So now - it even has it's own page:

https://www.facebook.com/Ustad.Mobile

Access and share educational content offline.

28/09/2013

Mike did a lightning talk in Washington DC at showing off mLearning tech made for the first time in Afghanistan to the rest of the world! see http://mobiledevconference.com/

Over the last decade, as mobile technologies have become more ubiquitous, they have moved from the fringes of international development activities into core platforms for service delivery across sectors.We’ve had opportunities to pilot ideas, apply public and private sector approaches, and scale inn...

01/09/2013

Checkout Bruce Green's video of what Ustad Mobile is about and at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3h4IA-dBYc . Info about how it works and what it's doing for pollicewomen students helping them to learn literacy.

n the last decade cell phone usage in Afghanistan has gone from zero to 15 million users. Simple and common Nokia phones are found even in remote villages. P...

30/07/2013

Policewomen doing interactive literacy courses on basic feature cell phones - 67,344 content pages served and counting...