JMEL schedule

Please note, we have moved the schedule for the first issue on by one month. Apologies, other commitments have made learning the new system harder than it should have been. If you have submitted to the first issue it in now in review.

MELSIG launches a journal

MELSIG has launched the Journal of Media Enhanced Learning. A free open and online journal, its purpose is to promote and inspire innovation in the good use of digital and social media in post-compulsory education. JMEL will publish two Special Issues each year. The first issue will appear in October 2015. A call for papers…

Smart Learning – Book update

Smart Learning teaching and learning with smartphones and tablets in post compulsory education A quick update to let you know how the new new book is progressing. We have had a good number of submissions for the book. Thank you. We have run several workshops and generated or captured ideas/scenarios too. What I have to…

Horizon Reports

I thought it would be useful to add links to the last two New Media Consortium/EDUCAUSE Horizon Reports . If you are not familiar will these reports, they set out proposals for emerging technologies that innovative educators should be paying attention to. The 2012 report highlights Mobile Apps for learning The 2013 report highlights Tablet…

New Book on Student Engagement through Mobile Applications

A new book has been published which might be of interest to the MELSIG community. Laura A. Wankel and Patrick Blessigner have edited Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Mobile Applications: Smartphones, Skype and Texting Technologies published by Emerald (2013) as part of the Cutting-Edge Technologies in Higher Education series. (ISBN: 978-1-78190-509-8). Chapters use case studies,…