Date

10/09/2010

Lecturer

Telmo Zarraonandia Ayo (UC3M)

Summary

Over the past decade has witnessed a revolution in the area of communications and information technology. This revolution has been due in part to the consolidation of digital mobile telephony and the development of laptops and digital cameras become more sophisticated. These three technologies have finally converged in devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) or smartphones, which allow Internet access almost anywhere, sending and sharing of documents or the management and disposal of the various events taking place in daily life.

The use of these devices to support or help in the teaching-learning processes can have multiple benefits, most of which derive from the flexibility allowed to enter when following these learning processes, and facilities offered to establishing and fostering communication and interaction between different participants in the process.

In this context, the MW-TELL project addresses the need to provide services for foreign language training supported by mobile devices, to overcome the usual restrictions of space and time. To this end, raises, among other objectives, the development of tools to allow publication and appropriate monitoring of courses and educational materials through these devices, and maintaining a repository for the storage of material for language training English specifically designed for this type of learning environment.

Slides

Videos

Seminario eMadrid: Aprendizaje móvil - MW-TELL, uso de dispositivos móviles para el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras from eMadrid net on Vimeo.

Author Biography

Telmo Zarraonandia Ayo (UC3M) is Professor in the Department of Informatics, Polytechnic School of the University Carlos III of Madrid. He is a member of DEI research group and research interests focus on the area of e-Learning and Web technologies.