Mobile Education: A Future So Bright We’re Wearing Our Shades

We are cranking away here at gWhiz, and we have some great apps coming down the pipeline. Mobile learning is becoming an increasingly cost effective, convenient, and accessible format to a broad range of audiences to foster a lifetime of learning. With the recent release of the iPad and all that’s going on with the Android, the future is only getting brighter in terms of possibilities and potential for mobile learning.

Consider younger audiences ages, 8 to 18. In a recent post Weblogged, children in this age group spend an average of 53 hours per week consuming and interacting with media! The latest article in Campus Technology Magazine discusses a pilot on the school’s campus, where the school gave out iPods and iPhones to their in coming freshmen class as part of a mobile learning initiative. A recent report by Elliot Massie’s Learning Consortium estimated that corporate expenditures for mobile learning will reach $246.9 million by the end of 2011. The report states, and we agree, that handheld devices have the incredible potential to push and pull information and deliver learning whenever and wherever you need it.

Here at gWhiz we think the potential for mobile learning is limitless across all age groups. Demand for mobile learning has kept our SAT Vocabulary app at the top of the list of SAT Apps on iTunes, and we believe it will so the same for our newly released SAT app. Florida Virtual Schools meStudying:Algebra I app released an algebra app that not only supports their own curriculum, but can also be used as a study aid by anyone taking high school algebra. We even see the demand for mobile learning among our own employees here at gWhiz who use our graduate school test prep apps and gFlashPro cards to study for just about anything, and everything. One of our marketing folks even made some fly fishing flash cards for her father’s iPod touch so that he could have a handy pocket reference when he’s out in the stream.

The future of mobile learning looks like a bright one, and here at gWhiz we are excited about the possibilities. We’ve even got an App coming up based on the popular Defining Twilight series to help students prep for the vocabulary portion of the SAT, ACT, GED, and more. Stay tuned for the announcement . . . .