Wouldn’t it be nice if all learners in an educational environment had access to a wireless laptop and free wireless access to their digital resources at a time and place to suit their needs.
The reality is that learners don’t always have access to what we as practitioners would like them to have.
However they do have access to some mobile digital devices which could be used, these include mobile phones, iPods, mp3 players, portable video players, PSPs... These devices are used extensively for entertainment, communication, information, audio and video, but rarely used for learning.
Introduction
I am James Clay, Director of the Western Colleges Consortium. A partnership of four FE colleges in the West of England. They are Norton Radstock, FIlton, Weston and City of Bath.