There is some very encouraging news that publishers are taking mobile learning seriously.  Although this will undoubtedly be helpful to developing countries, I am hopeful it will begin to push Universities to begin developing strategies to leverage this content for use in mobile devices here in the US.  The issue is not that students need an ipad or iphone to learn, but rather schools have to become better at reaching students on the devices that they use most frequently.  We are past the point where learning needs to wait until someone can get to class or can make it to their laptop in order to share their ideas. 

word comes today that McGraw Hill is jumping into the mobile education market with their upcoming mConnect platform: “an open-standard mobile learning platform designed to bridge the skills gap in emerging markets.”