Mobile Learning: A Handbook For Educators and Trainers (The Open and Flexible Learning Series)

✍ Scribed by Kukulska-Hulme

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Emphasising the issues of usability, accessibility, evaluation and effectiveness and illustrated by case studies drawn from contemporary projects from around the world, this book considers: the fundamentals of mobile technologies and devices the educational foundations of modern networked learning the issues that underpin mobile learning and make it accessible for all users the challenges of making mobile learning a substantial and sustainable component in colleges, universities and corporations implications and issues for the future. Mobile Learning provides useful, authoritative and comprehensive guidance for professionals in higher and further education and trainers in the business sector who want to find out about the opportunities offered by new technologies to deliver, support and enhance teaching, learning and training.

✦ 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