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MBA University Goes Mobile
Arab Open University of Bahrain has included Learning Mobile
Author development toolkits in classrooms and research departments
to pioneer the creation of an open source mobile content
library.
Haymarket, VA (PRWEB) September 14, 2005 -- Hot Lava Software, www.hotlavasoftware.com the leading mobile content
provider is extending the power of mobile content creation to
thousands of students through a partnership with Global Distance
Learning, Nashville, TN www.gdlc.com and Arab
Open University of Bahrain, www.aou.org.bh.
Using Hot Lava Software’s
mobile content creation toolkit, Learning Mobile Author, will allow
Arab Open University to create a mobile learning library for
students and the professors. This partnership and deployment of the
mobile authoring environment, positions Arab Open University as the
leading provider of mobile learning in the Middle East. The new
offering will include mobile study aides and job aides providing
students with a unique package of value-added services to further
enhance their studies at Arab Open University. Prof. Samir Qasim
Fakhro, Director of Arab Open University – Bahrain Campus said, “We
are indeed pleased and honored to initiate a strategic cooperation
with Hot Lava Software, Inc, a leading mobile content provider in
USA, along with our e-learning associate AlNadeem Information
Technology to allow both our AOU Bahrain campus instructors and
students to develop e-contents (using Hot Lava Software installed on
PDA’s ) for our MBA program and English language Center students and
publish results on our official learning management system: Arab
Campus. We truly hope that our current prototype project at Bahrain
Campus shall lead to fruitful and pioneering results in the
effective and efficient use of Mobile learning in Arab region for
both postgraduate education and skill-based continuing
education.”
About Hot Lava Software
Hot Lava Software,
provides mobile content solutions and a mobile content authoring
toolkit, Learning Mobile Author to Corporations and Universities
around the World. This toolkit allows rapid creation and deployment
of mobile content to multiple devices such as Palm, Pocket PC,
Blackberry and the desktop. Visit Hot Lava Software at www.hotlavasoftware.com.
About Global
Distance Learning
Global Distance Learning is a leader in using
telecommunications and technology to bring education from top US
providers to students in the Middle East, Near East and Gulf Region.
By coupling the best content from the leading US Universities with
the latest technologies for delivering that content, GDLC is
providing students with the best on-line education available today.
Visit GDLC at www.gdlcinc.com.
About Arab Open
University
It is highly important to recognize that the open
learning platform proposed at the AOU is in part a form of distance
education with added enhancements for quality education. But it is
much more than that. And unlike education by correspondence, whose
main drawback is the lack of lectures and faculty-student
interaction, the AOU open learning platform relies heavily on the
tutoring process that aims, in turn, at promoting a proactive
environment of learning. In addition, course lectures are laid out
in a programmed and progressive mode via well-prepared textbooks and
supporting notes, besides other supporting forms of delivery media
based on audio and video cassettes, CD-ROMs and on-line websites
(Internet-based). Intertwined together, these various components aim
to offer an environment of supported open learning. Library and
computer-based resources are also deployed throughout AOU's various
regional branches that are augmented by a number of Learning Centers
(LCs) in the subscribing countries.
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