Using mobile phones to improve educational outcomes: An analysis of evidence from Asia
By John Valk, A. Rashid, L. Elder. 2010
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Despite improvements in educational indicators, such as enrolment, significant challenges remain with regard to the delivery of quality education in developing countries, particularly in rural and remote regions. In the attempt to find viable solutions to these challenges, much hope has been placed in new information and communication technologies (ICTs), mobile phones being one example. This article reviews the evidence of the role of mobile phone-facilitated mLearning in contributing to improved educational outcomes in the developing countries of Asia by exploring the results of six mLearning pilot projects that took place in the Philippines, Mongolia, Thailand, India, and Bangladesh. In particular, this article examines the extent to which the use of mobile phones helped to improve educational outcomes in two specific ways: 1) in improving access to education, and 2) in promoting new learning . Analysis of the projects indicates that while there is important evidence of mobile phones facilitating increased access, much less evidence exists as to how mobiles promote new learning.
Subfields: Education, Information Systems
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- Mobile computing devices in higher education: Student perspectives on learning with cellphones, smartphones & social media (2013, background): “Mobile computing devices have included technologies that are transportable, such as cellphones and smartphones, and thesemay include tablet computers, laptop computers, and netbooks (Valk et al., 2010).”
- Dial D for Distraction: The Making and Breaking of Cell Phone Policies in the College Classroom (2015, background): “While many scholars offer suggestions about how to make cell phones a useful pedagogical tool (Katz 2003; Kinsella 2009; Lindquist et al. 2007; Prensky 2005; Schell, Lukoff and Mazur 2013; Scornavacca et al. 2009; Valk et al. 2010), others bemoan the distracting nature of cell phones in the classroo”