Mobile History in London: online resources for mobile field activities in history

This will be a short post designed to relay a few resources that I have used recently in writing my ebook on mobile learning field activities. The resources are London specific, but I suspect there are other resources for those wanting to do a few of their own mobile field activities. I am gearing these […]
mLearning in Korean Higher Education: Open Questions and Informal/Formal Oscillation

Building on two of my most recent posts discussing mobile learning in Korean higher education and categorizing some of that mobile activity according to transactional distance and socialized/individualized activity, I come to you today with a post about the process of coming to know via mobile technology in Korea and how that coming to know […]
Memory, Reflection, Methods of Selection: MLearning Field Activity

I was putting together a presentation I am going to be doing relatively soon on mobile learning designed specifically to set up a field activity and I thought it might be useful for at least a few of the teachers out there to outline how I think a mlearning activity might unfold. Pragmatically. So I […]
Need for guides in open learning: Virgil and Fitzgerald as instructional facilitation
I think it is important to think holistically about the field of elearning, mlearning, and open learning (particularly of the massive variety) as it undergoes significant evolution. I am not talking specifically about the market forces, the economic realities, the affordances, etc. of these shifts and how the effect education in general; there are certainly […]
Timbuktu Manuscripts as Artifacts
This is a post a bit outside the norm for this blog, so apologies. I have just been processing the devastating initial reports about the burning of many of the Timbuktu manuscripts by the departing troops ahead of the Malian/French retaking of the town. I have also read some reports that mention that quick-thinking locals […]
#mLearning and History in Higher Education (Part 5): Partial Builds, Zanzibar, and Research Methods
Returning to this little research project I have going on in my head and on this blog exclusively, I am left with the actual research methods I will employ to establish a credible study of mobile environments for creating communities of practice in dialogue-based disciplines (particularly History, but really any of the Humanities) in East […]
Mobile Learning and History in Higher Education (Part 4): #mLearning Theory and History

Thanks all for your patience, understanding, patience, and feedback. This is all starting to take shape and a few of you have pointed me further down specific lines of inquiry that I was only giving some cursory attention to, so many thanks. In this post, I am trying to link the previously discussed disciplinary practices […]