Mobile Learning and the distance learner: Implications for practice
The increasing ubiquity of mobile devices in the developed world is providing opportunities for these devices to support learning and teaching activities. Mobile learning is seen as offering many advantages to learners, not least being the ability for anywhere, anytime learning. This particularly applies to distance learners who are recognised for their preference to be able to learn in times and places that suit their individual needs. A recent qualitative study into distance students experience with information communication technology (ICT) suggests that many distance learners are essentially also mobile learners and that mobile devices are becoming increasingly important in supporting these students in their learning. However, the study also identified that higher education institutions may be largely unprepared for the impact of mobile devices or that their students may wish to use them. This paper discusses mobility and mobile learning and what this means specifically to distance learners. It reports on the findings of a study of twelve distance learners in relation to mobile learning and discusses the implications this has for policy and practice within higher education institutions.
Mobility mobile learning distance learning
Trish Andrews Belinda Tynan
The University of Queensland St Lucia, OLD, 4074 The University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba, QLD, 4530
国际会议
10th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning(第十届移动学习国际会议)
北京
英文
196-204
2011-10-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）