Mobile Learning Engine

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[edit] MLE - Mobile Learning Engine

The open source software "Mobile Learning Engine" (MLE) is a comprehensive learning application. It transfers the computer-aided and multimedia-based learning (known as E-Learning) to a mobile environment (to a mobile phone). This special kind of computer-aided and multimediabased learning is commonly known as "M-learning". The MLE enables the student to use his mobile phone as a medium for learning. As a consequence it is possible to use every kind of waiting-time for learning, no matter where you are. Examples would be:

Learning while you are waiting for the bus or the train.
Learning while you are travelling.
Learning while you are waiting at the dentist.

The Mobile Learning Engine tries to realize a major goal of M-learning: Learning wherever you want to learn, whenever you want to learn and whatever you want to learn. This goal is realized by the following:

The MLE is a content-independent engine for M-Learning. New content can be very easily created with XML or with a graphical WYSIWYG-editor.
The MLE uses an internet server (a LMS - Learning Management System) to retrieve new learning content and for communication (a MLE-extension for Moodle currently exists)
The MLE is an application for mobile phones realized in J2ME and therefor runs on nearly every mobile phone

[edit] Features

online and offline learning (store learning content on the phone)
instant messaging system
easy to use on mobile phones
content packaging compatible to SCORM and IMS
interactive questions (solved on the phone): single and multiple choice, fill-in, order-questions, graphical marking questions
send results to the server
mobile access to Wikipedia
GPS and bluetooth integration for special learning scenarios
record and playback audio and video
plugin-system to extend the MLE very easily (eg: a new question type)
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