Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Educators and Trainers

✍ Scribed by Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, John Traxler

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Series: The Open and Flexible Learning Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a timely introduction to the emerging field of mobile learning, explaining the technologies involved, their applications and the multiple effects on pedagogical and social practice. Mobile devices include handheld computers, smartphones and PDAs, and this book will emphasise the issues of usability, accessibility, evaluation and effectiveness, drawing from case studies written by researchers and practitioners. This is a cutting-edge subject in open and flexible learning, yet in spite of being the subject of a number of e-learning conferences, very little has been published on it (see competition analysis). This book will be the first to hit the market and will be picked up primarily by HE and FE readerships, but also by trainers wanting to find out about the opportunities offered by these new technologies.

✦ Table of Contents

Half Title: Mobile Learning......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copy right......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
Tables......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Series editor’s foreword......Page 15
Acknowledgements......Page 17
1 Introduction......Page 18
2 Mobile technologies and systems......Page 24
3 Mobile teaching and learning......Page 42
4 Mobile usability and user experience......Page 62
5 Accessibility and mobile learning......Page 74
6 Case studies......Page 87
7 Learning Italian via mobile SMS......Page 93
8 Evaluating a low cost, wirelessly connected PDA for delivering VLE functionality......Page 101
9 Expect the unexpected......Page 109
10 Knowmobile......Page 116
11 Training Perioperative Specialist Practitioners......Page 123
12 Whether it’s m-learning or e-learning, it must be ME learning......Page 133
13 Reading course materials in e-book form and on mobile devices......Page 142
14 Handheld composing......Page 150
15 The Student Learning Organiser......Page 156
16 Tuning in to students’ mobile learning needs......Page 167
17 University of South Dakota Palm Initiative......Page 174
18 The future of learning at IBM......Page 181
19 Institutional issues......Page 190
20 Conclusions......Page 206
Glossary......Page 214
Index......Page 220