By Tim Sohn, Campus Technology
Google Education provided an undisclosed amount of seed funding for the opening of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Mobile Learning, according to the Cambridge school. The center, located at the MIT Media Lab, will focus on new mobile technologies, apps, and their uses in education, including location applications, mobile sensing, data collection, and reality gaming. The first project will study and extend, for educational technology use, App Inventor for Android, a tool developed by Google Labs designed to allow anyone–from novices to programmers–to create apps by using a graphical interface of buttons and menus in a web browser called the Open Blocks Java library. “Google incubated App Inventor to the point where it gained critical mass,” said Johnson. “MIT’s involvement will both amplify the impact of App Inventor and enrich the research around it.”
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