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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... discussing theoretical models for the sustainability of mobile learning • providing the reader with strategies for sustaining mobile learning. Presenting new research alongside theoretical models and ideas for practice, the book will ...
... discussions in the TPD sessions 4.5 Major features of TPD for M5ESC 5.1 Mobile digital literacy framework, embracing the components in the three dimensions of cognitive, technical and social-emotional 6.1 The 4Es model (revised) 6.2 The ...
... discussion, community and connection. The imperative to scale may have favoured formal learning over informal learning and education for the mainstream over education for the marginal. The emergent players may have reinforced the ...
... discussing sustaining mobile learning since mobile learning itself is a moving target. The researchers in the book ... discuss a person-centred model for sustaining mobile learning in educational institutions. In the model, the authors ...
... discuss a conceptual model of Teacher Professional Development (TPD) that is critical in the lead-up to school-wide implementation of sustainable mobile learning. TPD was developed concurrently and iteratively with the development of ...
Contents
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Reframing global learning for the twentyfirst century | 26 |
3 Waypoints along learning journeys in a mobile world | 43 |
4 Professional development for sustaining a mobile learningenabled curriculum | 57 |
Mobile digital literacy | 85 |
6 Supporting sustainability and innovation of mobile learning in a UK higher education institution | 108 |
A universal design for learning approach | 127 |
8 Sustaining learning with mobile devices through educational design for teaching presence | 149 |
An example of cultural history exploration | 173 |
Sustaining iPadfacilitated visualisation pedagogy in nursing | 193 |
11 Achieving sustainable mobile learning through studentowned devices and studentgenerated multimedia content | 212 |
Index | 227 |
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 |