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It's worth pointing out that Elliott Masie is (rightly) careful to be technology agnostic in his video coverage of the iPhone.
The iPhone hype outside the US has been minimal - hence George Siemens and other cautioning that it's not necessarily going to transform e-learning. For more, see: http://learningtechnologiesconference.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/why-the-iphone-wont-transform-e-learning/
All the best,
Donald H Taylor
Learning Technologies Conference
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