Networked PDAs in a Community of Learners

摘要

'Knowledge access in distributed training. Mobile opportunities for medical students' ( KNOWMOBILE') is exploring just-in-time functionality with Internet based educational resources on personal digital assi; tants (PDAs). Intended for life long learning in a variety of health professions, this specific project concentrates on medica students during their assignment to the primary health care sector. The project is conducting experiments in the fall 2001 focusing how students in face-to-face as well as in distributed communities of learners, use the net to access and apply relevant knowledge sources and build collaborative support structures for their training practice.