A major GoldenSwamp theme is that there is a huge opportunity for global learning in putting open education content on mobile phones. An example of how that could be done is offered by Queen Hatshepsut in her exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. On the museum page here for the exhibit, the Metropolitan offers both an xml subscription to a podcast and the download of an MP3 audio file. The audio is terrific learning material: a description of what the curators say is the most important female pharaoh of ancient Egypt plus the story of how archeaology found out about her life. For phones that can play MP3, this open content is already able to go through the Internet to individual learners. Why not set up an easy way for museums to also offer images of their artifacts to play on mobiles along with the audio?
BTW, if you listen to the audio about Hatshepsut you will discover that she was a woman of imagination and action! Clearly she would have demanded to be downloaded if she had had a chance.
