Slides and the promise of a recording from a presentation by Scott Wilson on widgets and mashups in learning technology. He writes, "I think the main difference between how I see the world of devices interacting in education and some of the articles I've seen recently is that I assume that most of these devices are personal technologies – and because of that they will always be heterogeneous." This is, I think, an important point. We will want to use our own computers, and out own mobiles, and eventually, our own software, to access online learning. Thus, Wilson writes, "the challenge for education is providing resources and activities in an open and flexible way that will work – at least in some fashion – on any device... The biggest obstacle to doing any of this right now is platform fragmentation, which is being addressed by a major concerted effort from W3C to extend web standards... a better strategy is to invest in using web standards, and put pressure on vendors to adopt the W3C Device APIs that enable web applications to also make use of device features like cameras and SMS." Quite so.
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