Mobile Learning: The Next Generation (Open and Flexible Learning)

Mobile Learning: The Next Generation documents the most innovative projects in context-aware mobile learning in order to develop a richer theoretical understanding of learning in modern mobile-connected societies. Context-aware mobile learning takes advantage of cell phone, mobile, and pervasive personal technologies to design learning experiences that exploit the richness of both indoor and outdoor environments. These technologies detect a learner’s presence in a particular place, the learner’s history in that place or in relation to other people and objects nearby, and adapt learning experiences accordingly, enabling and encouraging learners to use personal and social technologies to capture aspects of the environment as learning resources, and to share their reactions to them.

John Traxler was Professor of Mobile Learning (the world’s first) and is now Professor of Digital Learning in the Institute of Education at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is a Founding Director and current Vice-President of the International Association for Mobile Learning, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning and of Interactive Learning Environments.

Agnes Kukulska-Hulme is Past-President of the International Association for Mobile Learning, Professor of Learning Technology and Communication in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University, UK, and Programme Manager for the Next Generation Distance Learning research programme in the institute.