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Research Essay: Mobile Learning
John Traxler
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 2011) pp. 57–67
Mobile learning is perhaps nine or ten years old. This thought piece, based on my keynote at IADIS Mobile Learning 2010 in Oporto, looks back at those years to ask if we started in the right place and went in the right direction, and if we have gone ...
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Distance Learning--Predictions and Possibilities
John Traxler
Education Sciences Vol. 8, No. 1 (2018)
Education systems, educational institutions and educational professions, including those of distance learning, can often be inward-looking, backward-looking and self-referential, meaning that they are often fixated on their own concerns, values and...
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Learning with Mobiles in Developing Countries: Technology, Language, and Literacy
John Traxler
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning Vol. 9, No. 2 (April 2017) pp. 1–15
In the countries of the global South, the challenges of fixed infrastructure and environment, the apparent universality of mobile hardware, software and network technologies and the rhetoric of the global knowledge economy have slowed or...
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Sustaining Mobile Learning and its Institutions
John Traxler
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning Vol. 2, No. 4 (October 2010) pp. 58–65
Mobile learning can be characterised as a specific project within the education system. This paper explores the sustainability of mobile learning in the wider context of the sustainability of that system. Mobile devices are near-universal and their...
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Learning in a Mobile Age
John Traxler
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 2009) pp. 1–12
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...
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Learning with Mobiles: The Global South
John Traxler
Research in Comparative and International Education Vol. 13, No. 1 (2018) pp. 152–175
This article addresses the need to build sustainable, appropriate and authentic foundations for learning with mobiles in the Global South. It does this in two ways: first, by reviewing aspects of the current environment, namely the nature of...
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Inclusion in an Age of Mobility
John Traxler
Research in Learning Technology Vol. 24, No. 1 (2016)
Learning with mobiles in UK universities is not new and is not novel. It is, in fact, at least 10 years old, well-documented and comparable to activity in universities elsewhere in Western Europe, America and Asia Pacific. Continued and dramatic...
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Students and Mobile Devices
John Traxler
Association for Learning Technology Journal Vol. 18, No. 2 (July 2010) pp. 149–160
Many educators advocate, promote and encourage the dreams of agency, control, ownership and choice amongst students whilst educational institutions take the responsibility for provision, equity, access, participation and standards. The institutions...
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Defining, Discussing and Evaluating Mobile Learning: The moving finger writes and having writ . . . .
John Traxler
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 8, No. 2 (Jun 09, 2007)
\Since the start of the current millennium, experience and expertise in the development and delivery of mobile learning have blossomed and a community of practice has evolved that is distinct from the established communities of 'tethered' e-Learning....
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Digital Literacy: A Palestinian Refugee Perspective
John Traxler
Research in Learning Technology Vol. 26, No. 1 (2018)
This paper is the first attempt to explore digital literacy in the specific context of the Palestinian refugee community in the Middle East by looking at the cultural specificity of digital literacy theorising and practice, by analysing current...
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The Crisis and the Response: After the Dust Had Settled
John Traxler; Vic Lally
Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 24, No. 5 (2016) pp. 1016–1024
The focus for the group was clear--it was global. Space, time, resources and chance have, however, limited the topics and the treatments they received, and so in this paper we ask: what slipped through the net, what fell between the cracks, and what ...
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Introduction: The Prospects for Mobile Learning
John Traxler; Steve Vosloo
Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education Vol. 44, No. 1 (March 2014) pp. 13–28
The issue that this article introduces grew out of an event, the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week, but also out of a wider and growing movement of people and organisations exploiting mobile technologies, as they pursue varied educational missions. The...
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The Theory Paper: What Is the Future of Mobile Learning?
John Traxler; Marguerite Koole
International Conference on Mobile Learning 2014 (2014)
Mobile learning is often described as ubiquitous, pervasive, accessible, and transparent. It has been seen as providing opportunities for those who could not previously cross existing digital divides-though it of course may create new ones. Yet,...
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Designed and User-Generated Activity in the Mobile Age
Agnes Kukulska-Hulme; John Traxler; John Pettit
Journal of Learning Design Vol. 2, No. 1 (2007) pp. 52–65
The paper addresses the question of how to design for learning taking place on mobile and wireless devices. The authors argue that learning activity designers need to consider the characteristics of mobile learning; at the same time, it is vital to...
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Teacher Development with Mobiles: Comparative Critical Factors
Karl Royle; Sarah Stager; John Traxler
Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education Vol. 44, No. 1 (March 2014) pp. 29–42
This paper addresses ways that mobile technologies can be used in teacher development, and focuses on mobile technologies. In particular, it addresses issues of context. It outlines and explores accepted practice and illustrates how mobility invites ...
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Using a Participatory Action Research Approach to Design a Lecture Podcasting System
Dick Ng’ambi; Gary Marsden; John Traxler; Raymond Mugwanya
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning Vol. 4, No. 2 (April 2012) pp. 67–86
Although podcasting is popular in higher education, there is limited research on podcasting in developing institutions or resource constrained environments. There are fragmented implementations of podcasting projects by enthusiastic faculty but the...