Learning in a Mobile Age

John Traxler
Additional contact information
John Traxler: Learning Lab, University of Wolverhampton, UK

International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL), 2009, vol. 1, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2009
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve. ... 4018/jmbl.2009010101 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:igg:jmbl00:v:1:y:2009:i:1:p:1-12

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL) is currently edited by David Parsons

More articles in International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL) from IGI Global
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Journal Editor ().