Mobile Learning: an Ergonomic Alternative for Long-Awaited Educational Changes? (original) (raw)

2014, Marco Kalz, Yasemin Bayyurt, Marcus Specht (Orgs.) Mobile as a Mainstream – Towards Future Challenges in Mobile Learning. 13th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, mLearn 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, November 3-5, 2014, Proceedings

Mobile learning, until now, was often defined and presented as a learning that could occur anytime and anywhere. However, now we clearly need to go over this definition if we want to take pedagogical benefits from this new learning method. In this paper, we present results of documentary research which demonstrates that the novelty of mobile learning does not consist in a new educational theory, but more in the possibility of new educational practices. Thus, we propose a contextual and technology-oriented framework that takes account of the user’s experiences and interactions in and with the environment of his networkedmobility. The affordances of the handheld devices, and more specifically smartphones, seem to have an important role to play in this context, to turn appropriate places and moments of everyday life into learning opportunities, through which the mobile user become a learner.