Mobile Learning

Mobile Learning: The Next Generation documents the most innovative projects in context-aware mobile learning in order to develop a richer theoretical understanding of learning in modern mobile-connected societies. Context-aware mobile learning takes advantage of cell phone, mobile, and pervasive personal technologies to design learning experiences that exploit the richness of both indoor and outdoor environments. These technologies detect a learner's presence in a particular place, the learner's history in that place or in relation to other people and objects nearby, and adapt learning experiences accordingly, enabling and encouraging learners to use personal and social technologies to capture aspects of the environment as learning resources, and to share their reactions to them.

John Traxler was Professor of Mobile Learning (the world's first) and is now Professor of Digital Learning in the Institute of Education at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is a Founding Director and current Vice-President of the International Association for Mobile Learning, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning and of Interactive Learning Environments. Agnes Kukulska-Hulme is Past-President of the International Association for Mobile Learning, Professor of Learning Technology and Communication in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University, UK, and Programme Manager for the Next Generation Distance Learning research programme in the institute.

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Next Generation of Mobile Learning by John Traxler & Agnes Kukulska-Hulme Chapter 2: Technologies and Applications for Context-aware Mobile Learning by David Metcalf and Angela Hamilton Chapter 3: Integrating Mobile Technologies in the Italian Educational Context by Marco Arrigo, Giovanni Fulantelli, Manuel Gentile, and Davide Taibi Chapter 4: Mobile Informal Learning through Geocaching by Gill Clough Chapter 5: Learning-through-Touring: A Methodology for Mobilising Learners by Juliet Sprake Chapter 6: Technology Integration in Next Generation Mobile Learning by Teemu H. Laine and Eeva Nygren Chapter 7: Exploring the potentials of mobile learning for stroke patients: RehabMaster Mobile by Ahreum Lee, Jieun Kim, and Hokyoung Ryu Chapter 8: Analyzing Context for Mobile Augmented Reality Prototypes in Education by Brenda Bannan Chapter 9: Making Sense of Context for Mobile Learning by Mike Sharples Chapter 10: Beyond Innovation in Mobile Learning: Towards Sustainability in Schools by Teresa Cerratto-Pargman and Marcelo Milrad Chapter 11: Challenges and Barriers for Mobile Learning in Security and Defense Organizations by Christian Glahn Chapter 12: Context Reconsidered by John Traxler Conclusion: Contextual Challenges for the Next Generation Index