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Coming, The M-learning Revolution !!- The Telegraph
Are you preparing for management exams, but completely starved for time, then M-Learning software seems to just the panacea for you.
It’s 11 am. Huddled in a corner of the Tollygunge Metro station, two young men fiddle with their trendy mobile phones. Says one, “Hey, I’ve cracked 85. What’s your score?” The other replies, “Wait, will catch up with you soon.” These are MBA aspirants Akash and Som, and they aren’t trying out a gaming application. They are solving a mock test paper.
The firm is planning to tie-up with pioneering coaching institutes to help provide content for competitive examinations like CAT, CET, GRE, GMAT, SNAP, NMAT and many more. "The applications provide preparation and learning when on the move with packaged content helping aspirants," said Shah.
Some 1,250 kilometres away, student Sudha is gearing up to receive study material in a new format in Port Blair. She’s just got an SMS alert from the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) assuring her of a delivery of educational content on climate management on her mobile. By the end of the year she can even do her exams through her handset, she’s been told.
The packages are designed in such a way that they can work without GPRS or SMS connectivity thus creating a real time mobile learning experience with no connection hang-ups or connection charges.
Akash, Som and Sudha are cashing in on a revolution that is brewing — the mobile phone-based learning (M-learning) boom. Kicked off by the launch of third generation (3G) mobile technology — and the possible launch of the next generation WiMAX (a wireless technology) later this year — India’s mobile telephony tycoons are foraying into education. Education service providers, handset makers and telecom operators are betting big on this.
Since ninety percent of the phones available today are JAVA enabled, the package will be widely used by most aspirants," claimed Shah.
Today — and especially tomorrow — mobile phones will help students revise their syllabi, check their course material and try out test papers while on the move.
The mobile phone mock test for MBA is called MAD-GK — and has been conceived by the Mumbai-based information technology firm Delta Technologies. Delta launched its M-learning initiative last year. With content by education service provider Career Launcher and publisher Tata McGraw Hill, the software, MAD, is aimed at students preparing for competitive exams. “The file can be downloaded from the Internet to your PC and then transferred to the phone using a data cable,” says Delta co-founder Jinen Dedhia.
In the application, questions appear as if scribbled with chalk on a blackboard. One can choose the correct option from the choices using a pointer. “The idea is to use the mobile phone as a source of learning whenever students don’t have access to the regular courseware, say when they are travelling,” says Dedhia.
Students won’t have to shell out much for M-learning either, barring the costs incurred on downloading. In Ignou, mobile phone-based content will just be an accessory along with its conventional study material. The MAD software packages are free for its users. “We rake in revenue from advertising,” says Dedhia.
Source - The Telegraph
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