Undoubtedly, if you are going to school on-line you are familiar with some sort of web based software program that compiles all the information you need for your course work. My school, Liberty University, uses Blackboard. Blackboard announced they are introducing a new program, called Blackboard Mobile. As the name implies students will be able to access their Blackboard information on their smart phones (iPod Touch®, iPhone® and Blackberry®). From what I understand on Blackboard's website, http://www.blackboard.com/Mobile/Overview.aspx, the school you attend would need to subscribe to this service. Also it is unclear to me exactly how much information the students would be able to view from their mobiles. For example, much of the information for my courses would be links to download a word file, would I be able to still download these files and view them from my phone? This is one technology that could seriously help me with my studies. I'm not complaining, but it can be cumbersome to need to use the computer to just check real quick what pages I need to read for one course, or look to see if my grades were posted yet, or to see if someone replied to my discussion board post yet.
I don't think Liberty offers this new technology yet, and I don't have a smartphone, but when Liberty does offer it I would definitely want to take advantage!