This case study is based on a research project concerned with the development of virtual science environments. Animations, cutaways and diagrams can aid teaching in many ways. To actually see recreated historical experiments or rare and lost equipment working in front of them, creates an easier and more enjoyable learning experience for the student.
Providing these ‘golden educational nuggets’ in a mobile computing environment means exciting teaching materials can be available anywhere!

This prototype uses the concept of online sport to illustrate how skills based learning can be made accessible via 3G phone devices to learners who have good reason to learn in the field. Sport is one activity that happens (like many forms of work, indeed) away from a desk based personal computer; so access to training would be most valuable on-court, on the fairway, or in the field.
The demonstrator aims to bring the very best of sports coaching, help, and tips to the internet, and also make this advice and help available to a mobile audience. The site is divided into a number of sections. The coaching section has animated tips and techniques for many different sports. The forum provides for sport discussion, and an events diary allows local teams to advertise their events. Teachers should find the site very useful for planning sporting activity classes.
The coaching tips and techniques are at the heart of the site. These are short movies of leading sports men and women providing visual examples of a specific skill, that are cleverly overlaid with helpful annotations and detailed still-photographs, that can be continually replayed until the student has grasped the skill; all whilst in the field.