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11031

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

Can I do my Ph.D on my IPhone?
Lyndon Godsall, Kaplan, Florida, USA, lgodsall@kaplan.edu Risa Blair, Fedex, Florida, USA, risa.blair@fedex.com

Is that really possible? Could we really have imagined that even 5 years ago? 'Mobile Learning' has made it possible to communicate in ways we never ever thought possible. We can now use a range of activities and discussions to response to the rapid development and increasing popularity of portable electronic devices. These devices may be wireless-equipped laptops or their smaller, cheaper class of netbooks, but increasingly mobile computing devices are phones especially smartphones such as Apple's iPhone or those that run Google's Android platform, or tablet devices such as Apple's iPad. As Mobile Learning opportunities increase, devices can perform most of the same functions as desktop computing platforms. This raises the promise of enhanced 'anytime, anywhere' access to online learning materials and interactions. However, are we really there yet?

This presentation will explore the portability of mobile devices and their ability to connect the student to the Internet almost anywhere. We will explore what makes them ideal as a store of reference materials and learning experiences, as well as general-use tools for fieldwork, where they can be used to record observations via voice, text, or multimedia, and access reference sources in real time. We will answer the question of can I do my Ph.D on my IPhone.

Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, All Audiences Mobile Learning