Mobile Learning

Part 1. Big picture and examples Chapter 1. Charting the conceptual space The 'mobile complex' 'Mobile' learning Education in the context of societal and cultural transformations An overview of the socio-cultural ecology: agency, cultural practices and structures Overview of the structure of the book References Chapter 2. Mobile learning: a topography Introduction A brief history of mobile learning Specialist conferences and events Professional associations Organisation with a particular interest in mobile learning Specialist journals Specialist issues on mobile learning Key issues in mobile learning Chapter 3. Mobile devices as resources for learning: adoption trends, characteristics, constraints and challenges Introduction Adoption trends of mobile devices and services Characteristics and functions of mobile devices Constraints and challenges Conclusions Chapter 4. Cases of mobile learning Methodology of the project analysis Cases Synoptic analysis Chapter 5. Whither a socio-cultural ecology of learning with mobile devices Introduction Activity Theory Conversation and discursive appropriation as contextual and reflexive activity Continuity of learning activities between and across contexts Activity Theory: a critical perspective Learning and meaning-making as subject-centred and context-related cultural practice Ecological approaches to (mobile) learning Participative, interactive, situated and contextual learning Part 2. An ecological approach to mobile learning in the context of global transformation Chapter 6. Analysing the mobile complex for education: key concepts Chapter 7. A social semiotic analysis of mobile devices: interrelations of technology and social habitus A social-semiotic take on technology The affordances of smartphones: a social semiotic analysis Implications for socialization and learning Open questions: gains and losses Chapter 8. The mobile complex, socialization and learning resources Introduction Everyday life with mobile devices, socialization and critical mobile literacy The mobile complex within socio-cultural developments Chapter 9. Appropriation and learning Introduction Appropriation: personal development and the internalization of cultural products Mobile devices, media and mass communication Learning in contexts and supported by situations Chapter 10. At-risk learners: their contextual and conversational options Introduction Case analysis of a provocative mobile video Habitus, socio-cultural milieu and learning Chapter 11. User-generated content and contexts: an educational perspective Introduction The situated character of mobile media and learning contexts Flexibility of contexts, specificity of mobile learning User-generated content and individualized knowledge building Individualized knowledge of native experts Assimilation of mobile/cell phones and user-generated contexts An analysis of reflext context awareness Mobile/Cell phones: from everyday life to school learning Chapter 12. Four didactic parameters for analyzing and planning The four parameters: an introduction Using the four parameters as a tool for analysis From analysis to planning Implications for teacher support and development Part 3. Perspectives for mobile learning Chapter 13. Setting the scene Chapter 14. Emerging technologies and attendant practices Adoption horizons for key emerging technologies Computing off the desktop: going small, large, everywhere and getting interactive Emerging infrastructure and devices: engaging with interdisciplinary discourse Context-sensitive learning Social operating systems How ubiquitous do you want it? Ethical considerations and suspicions Bridging the digital divide on the policy level Conclusions Chapter 15. Visions and suspicions Getting beyond being critical The issue of recognition: the education system and prevailing social/cultural transformations Learning and life-worlds: environments of learning Participation, social divides and cultural resources Situated learning and new practices of learning Context awareness