After a constructive lunch I've tried to answer the question, why should we display QR codes on our web sites? What is it adding to the experience? There are a couple of drivers for me to work this out. The first is after a recent presentation I

It appears that these QR codes are appearing everywhere :-)The following can (see below) was passed to me by Nitin in the e-learning Team at University of Bath - an empty can, not full :-( When read on your phone then this enables you to access the w

Well, a clear indicator that QR Codes have made it ... they appear as a key clue in a recent CSI programme :-)See the video (2 minutes on youtube) - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P-DntIQi2e8 Thanks to Nitin for the heads-up with this one, and the ori

A work package that spun out of a JISC Scoping Study into the Potential of QR Codes in Education was the question, how does a QR code reader on a mobile device work with a screen magnifier on the mobile device. When asked this in the meeting, I said,

Thanks to all that responded to my call for help. An anxiety that I have had is that perhaps not all QR Code readers would read QR Codes from different generators. I’m aware that they should, there is an ISO standard. However, from observations

I’m really pleased to announce that the e-learning team have recently released an enhancement to Moodle which appends a QR Code to the bottom of Moodle print outs. Great work from Matt Roper in the e-leanring team, and the support of other Univ

I've been noting an interesting observation in the last few times that I have used QR codes in presentations is that some readers don't seem to be able to access the qr codes that I have generated. This was a surprise because I assumed that t

I recently read Susono and Shimomura (2006) (http://www.formatex.org/micte2006/pdf/1006-1010.pdf ) who’d used QR codes in formative class assessment. This got me thinking about their potential use in end of class / unit evaluations. So given I

I recently presented om some uses of SMS in e-learning. The focus was on what I'd term an "SMS (edutxt) plus" approach. Where I discussed some uses of SMS with QR codes, word clouds etc., (my usual stuff). If you are interested the slid

I've been chatting to lots of people at work about rolling out our QR code projects. Triangualtion with Gwen and Matt resulted in me making a nice Friday discovery for those people who use / generate QR codes. The scenario is as follows

As some of you are aware I've been experimenting with different uses of QR codes in face to face teaching. A scenario that I've just tested is the following ... providing the presentation as a text file which the audience can download at the

This from iDA Singapore report on Mobile 2-D BarcodesThis report highlights that Japan and Korea have seen a development in the use of 2-D barcodes for a number of years 'aimed at simplifying the access of information and the creation of innovati

The following are drawn from two articles;1. Requesting pervasive services by touching RFID tags. Riekki, Salminen and Alakarppa (2006) Pervasive Computing2. Reach out and touch: using NFC and 2D barcodes for service discovery and interaction with mo

This article focuses on a more orthodox approach to the use of 2D barcodes, except it adds a twist by using GPS and server side solutions to deliver dynamic content. I'm not 100% sure if you need to go to such extremes, however, the model for con

See my delicious tags for reference to article: http://del.icio.us/andyramsden/qrcodeI have to admit I felt a little cheated by this article as it was below my expectations. I found it quite difficult to understand what they were actually doing. That

I've been reading around the topic of using QR codes (semacode) in education. This has been driven by a colleague who is undertaking a research topic on making it simpler for us to create and distribute QR Codes. So the question for me is, what r