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EXPLORING THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF M-LEARNING WITHIN AN INTERNATIONAL DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAMME
(2007-10-09)Imagine you are a student, studying as a postgraduate on a distance learning Masters course, offered by a UK institution. You are based in a developing country in Africa, employed full time, and due to the nature of your ... -
‘My grandfather is dead’: narratives of culture and curriculum
(2007-10-09)Curriculum, the term used to denote a course of study, has been understood in recent years as a documented program developed by experts and managed by an education authority. In many cases this has resulted in a focus on ... -
Where is the “m” in Skills for Life?
(2007-10-09)There are changes afoot in the world of Skills for Life. The post-Moser “golden era” in which the teaching of literacy and numeracy moved from the shadows into the spotlight may be about to shift focus. Is there still a ... -
Assessing Critical Thinking Processes in a Computer Conference.
(2007-10-17)The practical enquiry model describes a process by which experience leads to understanding though a cyclical process of deliberation-action, perception- conception. The four-phases cycle begins with a triggering event, ... -
Is Learning Really a Phone Call Away? Knowledge Transfer in Mobile Learning
(2007-10-17)Mobile learning can positively contribute to the development of learning communities by providing communication options that span contexts and locations, are available whenever, and are used virtually everywhere (Alexander, ... -
Mobile Usability in Educational Contexts: What Have We Learnt?
(2007-10-17)The majority of mobile learning activity continues to take place on devices that were not designed with educational applications in mind, and usability issues are often reported. The paper reflects on progress in approaches ... -
Practitioners as Innovators: Emergent Practice in Personal Mobile Teaching, Learning, Work and Leisure
(2007-10-17)Mobile devices have become commonplace tools serving a wide array of purposes that may include teaching and learning alongside work and leisure, in both formal and informal settings. The project reported on in this paper ... -
An Audio-Based Approach to Mobile Learning of Japanese Kanji Characters
(2007-10-17)We describe the design and implementation of an audio-based computer system for mobile, non-visual learning of the meaning and writing of "kanji" characters: the thousands of multi-stroke Chinese characters used in the ... -
Mobile Technology in Facilitating Learning Goals
(2007-10-17)Mobile and wireless computing technologies have influenced how people interact with each other. For the first time, mobile technology and student lifestyle choices are converging to allow mobile learning (m-learning) to ... -
Using Games, Mobile and Wireless Environments to Construct Meaningful and Motivating LearningTwo Cases: Adventure in the Castle of Oulu (1651) and Virtual Snellman (1822)
(2007-10-17)The traditional notion of a learning environment has expanded to cover virtual spaces. Today, these virtual learning environments are often network-based and readily wireless accessible to a certain group of students. ... -
Students on the fly: Preliminary data from a year‐long
(2007-10-17)As part of an ongoing, year‐long ethnographic study on laptop adoption and usage, selected families, young professionals, and students in Tempe Arizona and the Puget Sound area in Washington State have been given some form ... -
Reflections on Success: A retrospective of the mLearn conference series 2002-2005
(2007-10-17)mLearn is now in its fifth year. Although mobile learning has a much longer history, the inauguration of a conference for learning in the mobile age marked an important point in its development. This paper takes a ... -
Using mobile technologies for multimedia tours in a traditional museum setting
(2007-10-17)Mobile technology was used to deliver learner-centred experiences to visitors at a geology museum without compromising the museum’s aesthetic appeal. Two Flash-based multimedia tours were developed for the Hypertag Magus ... -
Personalized Profiling and Self-Organization as strategies for the formation and support
(2007-10-17)Mobile and wireless technologies are globally aware therefore so to do institutions have to think globally. By this is meant not simply making learning objects available to international students, but inventing ways to ... -
Interim report 2: ESPORT project evaluation
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Interim report 1: ESPORT project evaluation
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Ubiquity and Reusability
(2007-10-18)Ubiquity and reusability are key factors in driving the deployment of content. Up to now these elements have been challenges within mobile learning. However, with the advent of metadata structures, new technologies and ... -
Supporting ubiquitous language learning with RFID tags
(2007-10-18)Ubiquitous computing will help in the organization and mediation of social interactions wherever and whenever these situations might occur. With those technologies, learning environment can be embedded in real daily life. ... -
Using Mobile Learning to Enhance the Quality of Nursing Practice Education
(2007-10-18)The purpose of this paper is to review the research literature pertaining to the use of mobile devices in Nursing Education and assess the potential of mobile learning (m-learning) for Nursing practice education experiences ... -
From M-learning pilot activity to embedded practice: using formative evaluation to inform scaled-up implementation
(2007-10-18)This paper describes the implementation of a mobile learning strategy centred on the use of PDAs by learners in the 9-14 age range having 24/7 access. It is presented from two perspectives. The first is from the practical ...