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Learning in a Mobile Age

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  • John Traxler

    (Learning Lab, University of Wolverhampton, UK)

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The launch of the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning is one of several indicators that mobile learning globally is reaching a critical and sustainable momentum and identity. The past six or seven years have seen a host of pilots and initiatives across sectors and across countries and these have established firstly that mobile learning takes learning to individuals, communities and countries where access to learning was challenging or problematic and secondly that mobile learning enhances, enriches and extends how learning is understood. Environmental factors have meant that this development has been haphazard. The mobile learning community is now faced with broader challenges of scale, durability, equity, embedding and blending in addition to the earlier and more specific challenges of pedagogy and technology, but these developments take place in the context of societies where mobile devices, systems and technologies have a far wider impact than just mobile learning as it is currently conceived. This paper looks at the definition and evolution of mobile learning as the starting point for a discussion of this wider impact.

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  • John Traxler, 2009. "Learning in a Mobile Age," International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL), IGI Global, vol. 1(1), pages 1-12, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jmbl00:v:1:y:2009:i:1:p:1-12
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    1. Vušanović, Igor & Knežević, Bojan & Støckert, Robin, 2015. "Designing a Learning Space for Unified Collaboration and Communication between Universities, Industry and the Public Sector," Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference (2015), Kotor, Montengero, in: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference, Kotor, Montengero, 10-11 September 2015, pages 88-95, IRENET - Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy, Zagreb.
    2. Assunta Patano & Nunzio Cirulli & Matteo Beretta & Paola Plantamura & Alessio Danilo Inchingolo & Angelo Michele Inchingolo & Ioana Roxana Bordea & Giuseppina Malcangi & Grazia Marinelli & Antonio Sca, 2021. "Education Technology in Orthodontics and Paediatric Dentistry during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(11), pages 1-27, June.
    3. Peter Ilic, 2015. "The Effects of Mobile Collaborative Activities in a Second Language Course," International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL), IGI Global, vol. 7(4), pages 1-22, October.

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