Learning in a Mobile Age

By John Traxler. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2009

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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.

Subfields: Information Systems

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Citations in the corpus

• Viewing Mobile Learning from a Pedagogical Perspective (2012, background): “M-learning has the potential to transcend these spatial and temporal restrictions, overcoming ‘‘the need to tie particular activities to particular places or particular times’’ (Traxler 2009, 7).”
• An investigation of mobile learning readiness in higher education based on the theory of planned behavior (2012, background): “These three idiosyncratic features of m-learning can constitute a unique learning experience (Traxler, 2007, 2008, 2010; Wang & Higgins, 2006).”
• Will mobile learning change language learning? (2009, background): “Mobility needs to be understood not only in terms of spatial movement crossing (see Traxler, 2009, for a discussion of definitions of mobile learning; see Kakihara & Sørensen, 2002, for an analysis of mobility).”