Unearthing Invisible Buildings: Device Focus and Device Sharing in a Collaborative Mobile Learning Activity

Lyn Pemberton; Marcus Winter

International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning Vol. 3, No. 4 (October 2011) pp. 1–18

Recent research has identified excessive device focus as a serious problem in collaborative mobile learning as it undermines key ideas of learners engaging with their co-learners in context-rich authentic settings. Various recommendations have been...

Collaborative development of a ubiquitous elearning environment for cross platform delivery

Lyn Pemberton; Sanaz Fallahkhair

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 5345–5350

We describe the development process for an authoring and delivery environment for ubiquitous elearning currently under development in the context of an EU FP6 project . The early requirements - gathering stage of the project used a distributed...

Topics: Developmental Stages

The Usability of DIMPLE – Digital Internet and Mobile Phone e-learning Environment

Diana Andone; Jon Dron; Lyn Pemberton

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 245–251

Recent years have seen a new generation of ‘digital students’ emerging in the developed world. Digital students are young adults who have grown up with digital technologies integrated as an everyday feature of their lives. Digital students use...

Learner Centred Development of a Mobile and iTV Language Learning Support System

Lyn Pemberton; Sanaz Fallahkhair; Judith Masthoff

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 8, No. 4 (2005) pp. 52–63

Interactive television (iTV) is a new media technology that has great potential for supporting second language learning, particularly for independent adult learners. It has many characteristics demanded by modern second language (L2) learning...

Learning Languages from Interactive Television: Language Learners reflect on Techniques and Technologies

Sanaz Fallahkhair; Judith Masthoff; Lyn Pemberton

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4336–4343

Interactive television (iTV) is a new media technology that has great potential for supporting language learning, particularly for independent adult learners. However, in order for it to succeed it needs to fit in with these learners' approaches to...

Topics: Languages, Adults

Digital Students Across Europe

Diana Andone; Jon Dron; Chris Boyne; Lyn Pemberton

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1741–1748

This paper presents the results of a study performed in four European universities designed to identify the unique features of 'digital students', as a move towards building a customized model of an eLearning environment. What does it mean to be a...

Topics: eLearning, Students

Fabula: A Bilingual Multimedia Authoring Environment for Children Exploring Minority Languages

Viv Edwards; Lyn Pemberton; John Knight; Frank Monaghan

Language Learning & Technology Vol. 6, No. 2 (2002)

Presents a description of Fabula software, which enables children learning European minority languages to create bilingual digital books. Discusses the ways in which it has been used in schools in Europe, and highlights future plans, including a...

E-Learning Environments for Digitally-Minded Students

Diana Andone; Jon Dron; Lyn Pemberton; Chris Boyne

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 2007) pp. 41–53

While most existing online learning environments cater for needs identified during the 1990s, a new generation of digital students has emerged in the developed world. Digital students are young adults who have grown up with digital technologies...

Topics: Computers, Communication, eLearning, Information Communication Technologies, Networking Technologies