Mobile Learning. A Handbook for Educators and Trainers - Edited by Agnes Kukulska-Hulme and John Traxler (original) (raw)

Book Review - Mobile Learning: A handbook for educators and trainers

2007

Most conventional educational activities are time and space dependent. With the emergence of the correspondence education, a new era of education started that was not entirely dependent on time and space requirements. Education in the form of printed materials reached the learners wherever they are, rather than learners coming to the classrooms. These learners were mobile (changed places due to job mobility and other situations), and used the learning materials anytime, anywhere. But, it was never called mobile learning! However, with the increased use of mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and the demands for just-in-time education, a new genre of teaching-learning emerged in the form of 'Mobile Learning.' With the rapid growth in the number of users of mobile devices around the world, it is touted as the new found panacea for education in the less developed world. The book under review is a testimony to the current interests in the use of mobile technologies in education. Agnes Kukulska-Hulme and John Traxler bring together a group of researchers to report their indulgence with mobile technologies and education. The book includes 12 case studies and eight general chapters on mobile learning, besides an exhaustive glossary on the topic at the end.

Mobile Learning and the Future of Learning

2012

An interview article with Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, covering the meaning of mobile learning, its relationship to other types of technology-supported learning, the role of students and the impact on teachers. A section of the interview deals with applications in foreign language acquisition and other disciplines. Finally there are reflections on successful implementations, institutional issues, and the role of research in informing practice and policy development.

Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training

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Mobile devices and education are not often heard in the same sentence. But that is beginning to change as the ubiquity of the devices presents a strong case for use in “transforming the delivery of education and training,” as the book's subtitle states. Mobile Learning, edited by Ally, is ...

Preface Advancing Mobile Learning in Contemporary Educational Spaces

Preface Advancing Mobile Learning in Contemporary Educational Spaces, 2019

Mobile learning is an educational strategy that uses mobile technologies in order to promote and enable learning. Mobile learning also encompasses efforts to support broad educational goals across numerous fields as it caters to the effective administration of learning systems and more improved communication between educational institutions, students, and their families. Advancing Mobile Learning in Contemporary Educational Spaces is a critical scholarly book that provides current research on the applications of mobile and handheld technologies in education. Highlighting the use of mobile technologies across multiple discipline areas such as healthcare, language learning, and film studies, this book is excellent for practitioners, educators, educational policymakers, administrators, instructional designers, learning and development professionals, medical and mental health practitioners, academicians, and researchers.

Introduction: The prospects for mobile learning

PROSPECTS, 2014

The issue that this article introduces grew out of an event, the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week, but also out of a wider and growing movement of people and organisations exploiting mobile technologies, as they pursue varied educational missions. The UNESCO Mobile Learning Week represented by contributions here was a focus for contributions from across the field. This article provides a wider discussion of these contributions, first by looking at the achievements of UNESCO and then by considering these achievements more critically. In particular, it highlights several sets of inherent challenges facing UNESCO and other organisations engaging in mobile learning: those around evidence, evaluation, and sustainability; the problematic tension between largescale interventions, based on scale and content delivered by national governments, and the language and culture of marginal or indigenous people; the absence of appropriate ethics procedures to manage educational interventions delivered by a powerful and ubiquitous technology; and the absence of learners in the forums that address all these various issues.

Book - Mobile Learning. Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training

Mobile learning: transforming the delivery of education and training / edited by Mohamed Ally. (Issues in distance education) Includes index. Also available in electronic format (ISBN 978-1-897425-44-2). ISBN 978-1-897425-43-5 1. Mobile communication systems in education. 2. Distance education. I. Ally, Mohamed II. Series: Issues in distance education series (Print)