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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... institution-wide technology enhanced learning strategies. This involves operational management over staff and student development programmes, e-learning technologies and evaluating impact. Within this capacity he manages the e-learning ...
... institutional review board of a non-profit educational consulting company. He resides with his wife of 34 years in Ottawa, Ohio. Lung-Hsiang Wong is a Senior Research Scientist in the National Institute of Education, Nanyang ...
... institutions of established education systems catch up with this realisation and before the mobile learning research community shifts its focus from evidence and projects to policy and deployment. This may, however, be something of an ...
... institution, community or organisation, and this, in my over-simplified rhetoric, explained our problems with sustainability. Times have changed and now the social and organisational contexts of mobile learning form part of a more ...
... institutions. Depending on the model of BYOD adopted, we see a potential shift in the mobile learning paradigm from single platform-based mobile technology use to multi-platform devices with nonuniform capabilities. There are challenges ...
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 |