Social, Local and Mobile Tech in Schools

/

Extracted 13DEC2011 from http://mashable.com/2011/12/01/education-social-mobile/?utm_campaign=Feed:%20Mashable%20%28Mashable%29&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner&WT.mc_id=obinsite

Troy Williams is Vice President and General Manager of Macmillan New Ventures, the global media company’s division that discovers, develops and markets innovative technologies that make learning more engaging.

...While movements to incorporate ebooks and develop better Learning Management Systems (or LMS) are finally taking hold in higher education, more interesting (and potentially disruptive) are the emergent tech trends of Social, Local and Mobile – or what I like to call SoLoMo. We will begin to see innovations in these areas affecting the classroom and education in both dramatic and subtle ways.

[Brief summary of Social, Local, and Mobile follows in the article at this site]

/ / Comment

Gary Riccio

As a partner and as a consultant, I deliver value by identifying, aggregating, and developing previously undervalued assets--people and systems, internal and external, public and private, scientific and technical--for exceptional impact.