Refining current practices in mobile and blended learning new applications /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Parsons, David, 1959 Oct. 13-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.
• Subjects: Blended learning.; Mobile communication systems in education.; Cross-institutional blended learning; Digital literacy; E-heritage; Learning with sensor data; Mobile cultural resources for learning; Mobile knowledge society; Mobile media; Privacy and security in mobile and blended learning; Sustaining mobile learning; Work-based mobile learning
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"This book provides perspectives on new approaches to learning theory and practice in increasingly mobile, immersive environments, offering both theory and practice"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Sustaining mobile learning and its institutions / John Traxler
• 2. Appropriation of mobile cultural resources for learning / Norbert Pachler and Ben Bachmair
• 3. Mobile media, mobile texts: assessing the abilities needed to communicate and represent in the contemporary media landscape / Elisabetta Adami
• 4. Mobile learning as 'microlearning': conceptual considerations towards enhancements of didactic thinking / Theo Hug
• 5. Mobile learning, digital literacies, information habitus and at-risk social groups / Margit Böck
• 6. Mobile phones as mediating tools within augmented contexts for development / John Cook
• 7. Unlocking lifelong learning through E-heritage: using mobile technologies in Genoa / Krassimira Paskaleva and Maurizio Megliola
• 8. JAMIOLAS 3.0: supporting Japanese mimicry and onomatopoeia learning using sensor data / Bin Hou ... [et al.]
• 9. A platform for actively supporting e-learning in mobile networks / Basit A. Khan and Mihhail Matskin
• 10. Mathematics learning community flourishes in the cellular phone environment / Wajeeh Daher
• 11. Mobile, inquiry-based learning and geological observation: an exploratory study / Brenda Bannan, Erin Peters and Patricia Martinez
• 12. The significance of the reflective practitioner in blended learning / Aleksej Heinze and Chris Procter
• 13. Cross-institutional blended learning in teacher education: a case study / Carolin Fuchs
• 14. Towards work-based mobile learning: what we can learn from the fields of work-based learning and mobile learning / Christoph Pimmer, Norbert Pachler and Graham Attwell
• 15. Work-based mobile learning environments: contributing to a socio-cultural ecology of mobile learning / Graham Attwell
• 16. Opportunistic (L)earning in the mobile knowledge society / Ambjörn Naeve
• 17. Book review: the zen of mobile learning - turning the eye inward / David Parsons.