From Edupage, March 26, 2001
(An electronic publication of Educause)

TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE WIRELESS CLASSROOM
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington are
involved in work that could help advance teaching and learning in
local- and wide-area network environments. The projects for each
environment make use of portable handheld computers and wireless
Internet access. Project Numina, which involves local-area
wireless access, provides students with handheld PCs, the
appropriate software, and a connection to the Internet over a
wireless network so that they can use the resources of the Web to
learn abstract chemistry, mathematics, and computer-science
concepts. A Web-based interactive student response pad is among
the educational applications of the project. For use in large
classroom settings, the response pad has students submit answers
to teacher questions through Web forms on their computer screens,
and the system stores their answers in a remote database and
displays the responses at the front of the classroom.
(Computer, March 2001)