Jane Knight maintains a wonderful blog filled with great e-learning resources. Given my new interest in all things mLearning related, I will have to check out Symex mTeacher that Jane highlighted this week. From the features listed on the site, Symex mTeacher looks like more of an teacher classroom administration tool than a mlearning platform. Here is a snippet from the web site:
" Designed to enable teachers to share the mLearning vision… use SYMEX mobileTeacher and start your mLearning experience now, at school, at home, in the park, with additional benefits, of a PDA phone! Using any handheld running Microsoft® Windows® Mobile, you can access and enter data on the move."
Also, I see from JT Online that there is a new domain for mobile devices (.mobi) This whole Internet on the smart phone thing just might take off – maybe faster if the cell phone companies would just step out of the way and stop playing content gatekeeper 🙂
I downloaded mTeacher from download.com, it definitely helps teachers with classroom administration. There are performance analysis screens every head would die for.
I found its m-learning credentials are dependent on your definition; if you use the wiki definition, then symex mTeacher is an m-learning product; if you subscribe to the "content" definition, which is student centred, then I understand your comments.
I find it very useful, if there are teachers out there like me, with more paper than trees; then its difficult to see how I can resist the very small license fee.
Mr Cynical