Sign of increasing mainstream of m learning special journal;

This call for papers for special journal edition makes me think my prediction that m learning is going mainstream is correct
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=650

Call for papers: Emerging Mobile Learning Environments for Industries and Pedagogies

A special issue of International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation

Mobile learning (m-learning) is the acquisition of knowledge and skills by using mobile technologies anywhere and anytime. M-learning covers a wide range of possible domains by the convergence of emerging mobile technologies such as wireless communication infrastructure and mobile devices, and mobile applications such as online learning tools and mobile connectivity.

The subject coverage of this special issue includes, but is not limited to:

• Effective design of m-learning environments
• Emerging mobile technologies such as wireless network and mobile devices that directly facilitate learning
• Application of m-learning systems in industries (such as personalised dietary information, quitting smoking programs through mobile devices in healthcare industry)
• Application of m-learning systems in learning institutions (e.g. online Master’s programs)
• Development of m-learning tools for in-classroom teaching and learning
• Supply chain and value chain on m-learning
• Currently implemented m-learning applications
• Studies of mobile learning in practice
• Reviews of the application of m-learning in multiple contexts
• Uses of m-learning in mobile commerce learning environments
• Human computer interaction issues in m-learning
• Mobile games for learning
• M-learning in classroom
• Support for interaction among mobile learners
• Mobile collaborative learning
• Privacy and security issues and requirements in m-learning
• Comparison of m-learning with e-learning applications
• Assessment of m-learning in multiple contexts
• Critical success factors for mobile learning diffusion
• Cross-cultural mobile learning issues
• Knowledge management and learning strategies in mobile organisations
• M-learning data warehouse and data mining
• M-learning enterprise systems
• Field-based m-learning
• M-learning software development

TALC anyone

Teaching aids at low cost had a fund raising slot on radio 4 this morning . Teaching Aids at Low Cost have been around since 1965 and started of with distributing book transparencies in the health teaching area. They now run e-talc that create e media (cds) as well as sending out a lot paper based texts.

What does an e-TALC CD-ROM include?

from the the website http://www.talcuk.org/e-talc.htm

A variety of electronic resources are included on the e-TALC CD-ROM
including journals, books, newsletters and interactive educational
content. These resources are donated by a variety of NGOs, publishers
and individuals involved in health and development in developing
countries. The resources are sorted and chosen for inclusion on
future issues of e-TALC by our expert editorial board who make their
selection based on the relevance of the resource to health care
workers in resource-poor settings.

Some of the organisations who regularly contribute material to e-TALC include:

• World Health Organisation
• The British Medical Journal
• The Lancet
• The Wellcome Trust
• World Anaesthesia
• International Centre for Child Health

You can don ate to Talc at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/religion/radio4appeal.shtml
Could do with linking up with the  http://www.freedomtoaster.org/
project John Davitt told me of a year ago or so.