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Introduction - Developing m-learning - the time
is right?

• Peter J. Bates

Senior Partner, pjb Associates
Pearson Meeting Room Suite, London 24 September
2001
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Innovative approaches to Learning

• Monitoring trends and developments
• Catalyst to stimulate new business opportunities
• Widening access to learning in order to reduce
  social exclusion
• New opportunities for the continuous up-skilling
  of the workforce in order to maintain
  competitiveness.

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Whats happening

• Wireless LANs
• PDAs widespread use of mobile phones
• New personal devices emerging

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New Opportunities

• Moving to era of personal devices
• Not just for business people
• 14-16 yrs will expect to have a personal device
  anytime any place
• Overcoming social exclusion

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Why establish the Forum?

• We believe that the time is right to establish a
  neutral forum for vendors, network operators,
  educationalists, trainers and learning content
  providers to discuss the wide variety of issues
  and context in which learning through mobile and
  wireless devices could develop.

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Whats it all about?

• Human Networking
• Floating and sharing ideas
• Sharing Knowledge and know-how
• Developing partnerships

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Thank you for listening
Peter J. Bates
Senior Partner pjb Associates 52 St Andrews
Way Ely, Cambs CB6 3DZ United Kingdom Email
pjb_at_pjb.co.uk http//www.pjb.co.uk