Research and Communication Papers

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Education in the Wild – a comprehensive overview of location-based contextual learning: A new report has been published by the LSRI/University of Nottingham that gives an essential overview of research into location-based contextual mobile learning primarily across Europe, edited by Elizabeth Brown. The report follows on from a 2-day workshop funded by the STELLAR Network of Excellence as part of their 2009 Alpine Rendez-Vous workshop series. Contributors have provided examples of innovative and exciting research projects and practical applications for mobile learning in a location-sensitive setting, including the sharing of good practice and the key findings that have resulted from this work""

Assessing Mobile Learning Effectiveness and Acceptance: Thesis by Paul W. Williams, George Washington University, on 'Assessing Mobile Learning Effectiveness and Acceptance'

Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education & Training” edited by Mohamed Ally: This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives in mobile learning research. Businesses and governments can learn how to deliver timely information to staff using mobile devices. Professors can use this book as a textbook for courses on distance education, mobile learning, and educational technology.

Pockets of potential: Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children’s Learning: Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children’s Learning

Research journals: Various special issues on mobile learning

One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality: The vision is being overwhelmed by the reality of business, politics, logistics, and competing interests worldwide. Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason Dedrick, Prakul Sharma Communications of the ACM Vol. 52 No. 6, Pages 66-73 10.1145/1516046.1516063

Innovation in Mobile Learning: a European Perspective. Paper accepted for publication in International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 1,1.: A survey paper of European mobile learning research for the first issue of International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning.

Mobile Learning: Small devices, Big Issues: In this chapter we attempt to address the central issues of what is mobile learning and how can we design and evaluate it. Drawing on a theory of mobile learning as ‘the processes of coming to know through conversations across multiple contexts amongst people and personal interactive technologies’ (Sharples et al. 2007) we shall discuss how learning contexts are created through interaction, and how portable and ubiquitous technologies can support effective conversations for learning. We shall draw on the findings from recent major projects to show how people artfully engage with their surroundings, peers and technology to create impromptu sites of learning and to carry their conversations from place to place, from time to time, from topic to topic.

Big Issues in Mobile Learning. : The "Big Issues in Mobile Learning" report has now been published. The report is edited by Mike Sharples and contains chapters from 8 collaborative sessions organised around important and emergent topics of mobile learning.

Proceedings of Beyond Mobile Learning Workshop.: Edited by Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez, Mike Sharples, Giasemi Vavoula, The CSCL Alpine Rendez-Vous, Villars, Switzerland, 21-23 January 2007.