This paper reports on the progress of a project conducted at the University of Glasgow to investigate the benefits of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) as teaching, learning and formative assessment tools and the practicalities of deploying PDAs and assessing their use. Students from both electronics and electrical engineering degree courses and from summer schools were involved. Benefits included an increase in off-campus learning opportunities, in collaborative learning and in engagement with the course material.
WaycottJ.ScanlonE. and JonesA., Using PDAs as Learning and Workplace Tools: An Activity Theory Perspective, MLearn 2002 (The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, 2002).
