When I read the vision excerpted below I was reminded of the day in 2001 that I first heard of the MIT vision to open their courseware online. These are BIG IDEAS and predict real change. I recommend to you the several pages at ACU in which they set out their rationale and sketch their plans. This is their introduction:
As a university, ACU has invested much energy considering emerging trends in education. We’ve done this because our ongoing goal to help prepare our students to be critical thinkers, knowledgeable professionals, and responsible citizens calls for continual reevaluation of almost everything that happens in and out of the classroom – even a reevaluation of what constitutes the classroom itself.
In the spring of 2007, a group of educators, technologists, and administrators at ACU crystallized these ongoing discussions, producing a case for a new emphasis on mobile learning based on ubiquitous information access through powerful, portable, converged devices. Made possible by the broad capabilities offered by a new generation of these devices, we see the future of the university coalescing around the new opportunities that mLearning is bringing.
