Education has just gone mobile. A South African technology training company, IT School Innovation has launched MOBI. This application allows users to learn mathematics while chatting to others. IT School innovation refer to it as mobile edutainment.
''Although the underlying technology provides the foundation for rolling-out mobile education programmes on just about any topic to any location for any organisation or community – the initial focus is on mobile mathematics (MOBI Maths) for grades 10 to 12, specifically tailored for the South African mathematics curriculum," says IT School Innovation's CEO, Lieb Liebenberg.
MOBI can be downloaded for free. Using a 3G connection the user can then connect to the server. This provides them access to MOBI Maths, MOBI Chat and MOBI Radio.
"Looking specifically at education, MOBI currently offers both mathematics education in the form of a five section structured educational approach and secure private chat rooms for learners to communicate with their friends. This is an ideal platform for cooperative learning events, or just socialising. Content preparation for other subjects such as physics and chemistry is in progress," says Liebenberg.
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