Authors:
David M. Kennedy
1
and
Doug Vogel
2
Affiliations:
1
Division of Information and Technology Studies, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
;
2
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Keyword(s):
Mobile, technology, smart phones, design, software, learning, PDA.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer-Supported Education
;
Content-Based and Context-Based Learning
;
e-Learning
;
e-Learning Standards and Tools
;
Software Tools for e-Learning
Abstract:
Mobility is an intrinsic property of learning encompassing spatial, temporal and developmental components. Students’ expectations on how and when they learn are creating increasingly heavier demands upon all aspects of their learning and young people, more than any other group, are making mobile devices extensions of their personal space and fundamental to their daily lives. In response, the world is moving very rapidly to engage with the opportunities and flexibility offered by mobile technologies. Educators and developers are faced with the dilemma: do you develop applications for the mobile or the wired environment? In this paper we argue that learning environments will remain combinations of wired and wireless for the foreseeable future. However, not all affordances offered by wired environments are transferable to small mobile devices. In fact, some tasks involving student-generated content are better served by applications that are designed to be entirely mobile. The paper will
present initial results and evaluations of five of learning tools with the properties mobility, flexibility and either instructor- or student- generated content.
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