05 MMS

MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) All answers
MMS is a standard related to the delivery of multimedia messages (picture, audio, video, rich text) between mobile phones. From a user’s point of view it works in the same way as SMS. MMS supports two delivery modes – immediate delivery and deferred delivery. In the deferred delivery mode you will receive an SMS message immediately to indicate that you have been sent a multimedia message. This service supports the delivery of the MMS to e-mail as well. An MMS message is carried over GPRS or WLAN connections.

Advantages
Attractive features for student↔student communication. Can be used also to deliver Slide Show Presentations.

Disadvantages
Even more expensive than SMS in university→student communication.

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MMS as a Facilitator for mLearning
The potential to use MMS was evaluated in the ViCaDiS Project as follows:

1. Person to person MMS with Rich Content
2. Mobile Slide Shows
3. User Generated Content from Device to Device
4. Mobile Blogging
5. Dual Device Option: Mobile Devices and/or email

The potential and probability of use is on reasonable high level in question 5 and in other questions on moderate level.

Lets spread the results in a normalised diagram (description) to see how answers are related to each others.

All the aspects are relevant. The first development activities should concentrate on:

• Dual Device Option: Mobile Devices and/or email

Commenting/Discussion subjects

• What kind of Open Source or cost effective MMS solutions are available?
• Do you have positive/negative experiences related to educational use of MMS?
• How would you develop educational use of MMS on a very limited budged? Can you name actionable first steps for development?
• What are the implications for ViCaDiS Work Packages?

Go to: ViCaDiS – mTechnology -Questionnaire - SMS – MMS - WAP – DRM - PoC – VoIP – NFC – GPS/AGPS -
Participate discussions and commenting at the end of this page!

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The ViCaDiS Project has been funded by Lifelong Learning Programme 2007 – 2013 and by 10 partners in 6 countries.