Full Description
Mobile learning is an emerging, and rapidly expanding field of educational research and practice across schools, colleges and universities as well as in the work place and in the community. It is starting to attract the interest and imagination of practitioners in all phases of education as well as of researchers and a number of national and international annual conferences have been established to share growing insights into attendant theories and practices. Key Issues in Mobile Learning offers a topography of the current debates and issues surrounding mobile learning and structures them in such a way as to provide an overview for practitioners, researchers, students and policy makers of the pertinent issues in mobile learning as well as a jump-off point for further work or practice in the field.
Contents
1. Introduction and Overview 2. Mobile Technologies: Tools, Applications, Affordances and Barriers 3. Pedagogical Approaches to Mobile Learning 4. Mobile Learning in Development Contexts 5. Overview of Existing Theories, Research, Research Methods and Findings 6. Outlook and Recommendations for Research and Practice References Index
