Mobile learning via smartphone has been a possibility for learners since the earliest smartphones (T-Mobile Sidekick was an early example), but the the recent explosion in apps, access, and the essential ubiquity of mobile devices, there is a growing demand for instructional content that meshes with the learner's lifestyle and learning habits. In a smartphone world, developers can no longer simply try to make their content mobile-friendly (early example: smartphone science class). Developers have to think of the mobile environment first, and then make it also accessible via laptop. The best schools now must incorporate new strategies for delivering m-learning. One innovator in mobile learning is Aashita Jadhav, whose SchoolinMobile.org has developed a platform to enable expanded access to instructional content that is both engaging and effective.
What is your name and
relation to elearning / mlearning?
My name is Aashita Jadhav,
the founder of the SchoolinMobile.org
What is School in
Mobile?
School in Mobile ( SchoolinMobile.org)
is a FREE educational platform (accessible by web and as an FREE Android App)
OUR MISSION - Every
Student in the world to have access to learning material, the green way.
School in
Mobile provides the following benefits:
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Fast - Students can learn a chapter in less
than 30 minutes including test.
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Useful - Helps students pass the STAR test and
thus helps improve the school rating.
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Fun - Students get cool badges for getting
good score from the quiz.
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Green - As the content is in digital format ,
it helps the environment.
What needs does School in
Mobile address?
I consider that we are
fortunate to be at the time of three big revolutionary shifts - -
mobile, social and cloud. Every industry is trying to make the best use of
these advancements. School in Mobile is helping the Education sector with this
shift to make learning an engaging process.
Students have been caring
heavy textbooks around for decades. Today technological advancement make it
possible to change this.
School in Mobile provide
ease of access , speed of completing a chapter and finally helps them pass the
grade tests.
What kinds of devices does
School in Mobile work on?
School in Mobile is
practically available on all devices.
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A FREE Android app is already present on Google marketplace.
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For all other devices ( including Apple devices) ,
it can be accessed through the web link
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We just launched FREE Chrome Web
Store app
What are the underlying
learning strategies and philosophies in School in Mobile?
School in Mobile is not
just provider of content in form of books or videos.
It is an end-to-end
platform for student to learn as well as test their knowledge.
Proven research shows that
students learn by going through summary notes and retain the knowledge for
longer duration.
School in Mobile provides
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Ready to use summary notes in text as well as movie
format.
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Once the students have studied a chapter at school.
They can revise it on School in Mobile in less than 30 minutes including quiz
test.
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Engagement is increased by this quick and easy
tool. Also the cool badges which students get from test makes it fun.
How can you overcome the
problems of access to the cloud? What happens when students do not have wifi
access to the cloud or wifi connectivity?
Currently School in Mobile
is available on the cloud and accessible everywhere. We are working on the next
phases to make it easy to download on the device making it available without
wifi connectivity. This is crucial for developing countries.
What are the next steps
for School in Mobile?
The steps are really exciting for us.
We are working
on enhancing the platform by several ways like
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Making more grades, subjects and chapters
available
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Add capability to login using facebook and google
accounts
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Open the platform to allow teacher add content. We
are partnering with more teachers . Any teacher can reach us at info@schoolinmobile.com
Also we are working to
deploy this to other countries.
How can students and
teachers try out School in Mobile?
You can download the
Android App from Google marketplace.
OR
Access the web version ( for all devices including Apple) from our website ( SchoolinMobile.org)
