This article outlines the use of SMS to enhance learning in a business course. The experience of using SMS in tutorials and lectures was a positive experience for those involved.

International Service Learning provides the opportunity for a profound learning experience. Students are taken out of their comfort zones and need to confront genuine challenges.

The students were enrolled in a class where they needed to learn Macromedia Flash. The lecturer saw this as an opportunity to get the students involved in voluntary welfare organisations - and learn Flash at the same time.

Read how it was done - and the outcomes.

The problem: Final year students with too many unrelated IT projects.

The solution: Integrate the projects into a single project - and get the students to work with companies to produce a “real-world” application.