Welcome to the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) weekly report on news and findings of interest related to mobile learning in the military.

Mobile Learning...

• mLearnCon: Mobile Gets Real - http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/483/
• ‘Augmented Reality’ on Smartphones Brings Teaching Down to Earth – Open source software tool called ARIS, or Augmented Reality and Interactive Storytelling lets designers link text, images, video, or audio to a physical location, making the real world into a map of virtual characters and objects that people can navigate with iPhones, iPads, or iPod Touches. - http://chronicle.com/article/Augmented-Reality-on/65991/
• Since mobile learning in health care is such a hot topic today, this blog from a nursing school that has been using mobile devices for five years may be of interest –“Mobile Learning at the Point of Care” – https://registration.it.ohio-state.edu/blog/digitalunion/2010/06/22/mobile-learning-at-the-point-of-care/
• “Is there a Macro Value in Microlearning?” article from Chief Learning Officer July 2010 – Bite-sized learning can round out an organization’s overall strategy by enabling cost-effective peer-to-peer knowledge sharing arose the enterprise. - http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/mediatec/clo0710/index.php?startid=30#/32
• Open University hits record 20 million downloads on iTunes - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/open-university-hits-record-20-million-downloads-on-itunes/5444

News Stories of Interest...

• Ball State University announced newest research of mobile communication devices on college campuses – http://www.bsu.edu/news/article/0,1370,7273-850-64351,00.html
• Google Launches Docs for Mobile Devices – http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/06/google-docs-viewer-on-mobile-browsers.html. You can now edit spreadsheets from your Webkit-based mobile browser (iPhone, Android, Nokia S60, Palm Pre), Opera Mobile, or Opera Mini.
• Apple boasts 1.7 million iPhone 4 sales – http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65O6FE20100628
• Article from Harvard Business Review entitled “How Barcodes and Smartphones Will Rearchitect Information”. Imagine what support is available when “every phone can become an access device for information indexed to the place.” - http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/06/how_barcodes_and_smartphones_w.html
• The Army Soldier’s Blue Book is now available for free downloading from iTunes - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-army-soldiers-bluebook/id378978355?mt=8
• Cisco announced the Cius, a 7” Android-based tablet with video conferencing capabilities. – http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/cisco-announces-the-cius-the-blackberry-of-tablets/

Resources...

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ADL Mobile Learning Team Contact: Judy Brown judy.brown.ctr@adlnet.gov