Sustaining Mobile Learning: Theory, research and practiceWan Ng, Therese M. Cumming Mobile technologies are one of the fastest growing areas of technology in education. For learners, they offer an appealing opportunity to transcend teacher-defined knowledge and approaches by being able to access multiple, alternative sources of information anytime and anywhere. While the pace of engagement with and research into the educational applications of mobile technologies has picked up dramatically in the last decade, there is no consolidated view of how to sustain the practices or opportunities that are being explored. Sustainability is a complex but crucial issue in mobile learning as educational institutions are usually required to make substantial investments in mobile devices and associated technologies, time and training to initiate mobile learning programs. The complexity of sustainable mobile learning programs is further exacerbated by the fast pace of change of digital technologies, where with every change, new possibilities are opened up and investments required. In addition, educators are still attempting to reconcile institutions of formal education with informal mobile learning. The book addresses these issues, with a particular focus on:
Presenting new research alongside theoretical models and ideas for practice, the book will appeal to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of education and mobile learning, as well as those working in teacher education. |
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... enabled curriculum CHEE-KIT LOOI, DANER SUN, LONGKAI WU AND LUNG-HSIANG WONG 5 Sustaining mobile learning at a personal level: Mobile digital literacy WAN NG 6 Supporting sustainability and innovation of mobile learning in a UK higher ...
... enabled by digital technologies that have authentic and sustainable impact on students' learning. She is also interested in how young people interact with technologies to learn. Since 2002, the start of her academic career in education ...
... enabling video playback Touchscreen with virtual keyboard USB (universal serial bus) port In education, studies and reports of adolescents and young adults' ownership of smart devices are consistent with the reports of the rapid rise in ...
... enabled by the capabilities listed in Table 1 make them increasingly important in our lives. As Kelly and Minges state: Given technological convergence, mobile handsets can now function as a wallet, camera, television, alarm clock ...
... enable users to “re-interpret their everyday life contexts as potential resources for learning” (p. 5). Other ... enabling convenience for learning make defining mobile learning difficult since categorising it would compromise these ...
Contents
Waypoints along learning journeys in a mobile world | |
AGNES KUKULSKAHULME AND MIKE SHARPLES | |
CHEEKIT LOOI DANER SUN LONGKAI WU AND LUNGHSIANG WONG | |
Supporting sustainability and innovation of mobile learning in a UK higher | |
TIM GOODCHILD AND ANDY RAMSDEN | |
CAROLINE WALTA AND HOWARD NICHOLAS | |
JULING SHIH JYUNFONG GUO AND CHENGPING CHEN | |
HANNE WACHER KJÆRGAARD LARS PETER BECH KJELDSEN AND ANNETTE RAHN | |
Index | |
Other editions - View all
Sustaining Mobile Learning: Theory, research and practice Wan Ng,Therese M. Cumming Limited preview - 2015 |
Sustaining Mobile Learning: Theory, Research and Practice Wan Ng,Therese M. Cumming No preview available - 2017 |