Key Themes in Mobile Learning: Prospects for Learner-generated Learning Through AR and VR

Date
2017
Authors
Aguayo, C
Cochrane, T
Narayan, V
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Journal Article
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ASCILITE
Abstract

This paper summarises the key findings from a literature review in mobile learning developed as part of a two-year six-institution project in (location blinded). Through the development of a key themes codebook, here we address selected key themes with respect to their relevance to learner-generated learning through emerging technologies, with attention to mobile augmented reality and mobile virtual reality. We see that these two current mobile learning affordances, complemented though relevant approaches to research and practice in mobile learning such as design-based research and connected social learning, are critical to reconceptualise learning through mobile devices. We conclude that mobile learning (still) requires theories, methodologies and practices of its own as a field. We also see a need for mobile learning to be conceptualised around ever-changing learning affordances and educational settings, rather than focusing on static structures such as content-delivery approaches, while embedding it within the scholarship of technology enhanced learning.

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Mobile Learning , Heutagogy , Affordances , Emerging Technologies
Source
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 33(6). doi:https://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.3671
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