Today was the third MoLeNET conference, a celebration of mobile learning and the MoLeNET programme.
There were a few presentations, but lots of demonstrations, discussions and workshops.
I was quite reserved this year and let others do a lot of work.
There were lots of lessons from the conference that I and others could take home and use with our institutions. The key here was that even someone like me, who is well versed in the potential of mobile learning, can learn something from a mobile learning conference.
I hope to over the next couple of weeks bring some of the highlights and thoughts from the conference. There are some really interesting thoughts and lessons about cultural change, sustainability, technical issues as well as people and training and development.
With the changes in funding recently it is looking like that we will not see anymore MoLeNET funding for projects. This doesn’t mean that this needs to be the end of MoLeNET as a community.
It’s obvious from the work of MoLeNET projects that mobile learning is here and is here to stay. Learners are using mobile devices for learning and institutions need to be ensuring that they have the infrastructure to support this.
Where MoLeNET comes into this, is by providing a community of expertise, knowledge and guidance. As I said above, we can learn from each other and there is always something new to learn.
Today should not be the end of MoLeNET, merely the beginning…
Hi James,
Sounds like a great event, I wish I’d got into the whole Learning Technologies arena much sooner as I could have benefited from communities/projects such as this.
I’m looking forward to hearing/listening to what you took away from the event yourself.
Craig