Models for Interdisciplinary Mobile Learning: Delivering Information to Students

✍ Scribed by Andrew Kitchenham

• Publisher: IGI Global snippet
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mobile learning, or m-learning, can take place in any environment using technologies that fit in the palm of the hand or can be easily carried from one place to another.Models for Interdisciplinary Mobile Learning: Delivering Information to Students investigates m-learning applications in developed and developing countries as individuals and groups embrace mobile systems. This innovative work expands on existing perspectives, applications, theories, and philosophies while also exploring how blended learning practices have developed into mobile learning opportunities.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
List of Reviewers......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 6
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 9
Foreword......Page 16
Preface......Page 20
Acknowledgment......Page 27
An Analysis of Mobile Learning in Education, Business, and Medicine......Page 29
Producing Generic Principles and Pedagogies for Mobile Learning......Page 54
But Do They Want Us in “Their” World?......Page 77
Standardized, Flexible Design of Electronic Learning Environments to Enhance Learning Efficiency and Effectiveness......Page 94
Situation-Based and Activity-Based Learning Strategies for Pervasive Learning Systems at Workplace......Page 115
Mobile Learning in Action......Page 132
Investigating Undergraduate Student Mobile Device Use in Context......Page 148
Mobile Learning in Medicine......Page 165
Unleashing the Potential of Mobile Learning through SMS Text for Open and Distance Learners......Page 182
Promoting Learner Generated Content and Podcasting in Postgraduate Hospitality Education......Page 203
Closing in on Vocabulary Acquisition......Page 223
Augmented Reality and Mobile Technologies......Page 240
Student Perceptions and Uses of Wireless Handheld Devices......Page 259
Using Students’ Own Mobile Technologies to Support Clinical Competency Development in Speech Pathology......Page 275
The New Age “Information Dowser” and Mobile Learning Opportunities......Page 293
Compilation of References......Page 313
About the Contributors......Page 342
Index......Page 349