Defining mLearning: Mobility of Material and Mind
Michael Gallagher I was revisiting some of the Literature Review sections of my thesis and found the section dedicated to contextualizing the discussion on mobile learning to be lacking. This was not…
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Travel and emergence: learning through motion, intention, and serendipity
Travel and Emerging Learning: How Motion and Perspective Affect Understanding (ie, a mosaic being made) Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go.…
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…
Evolution, Tools, and Coming to Know: The Purpose of Writing
This post represents the aggregation of some disparate thoughts I had today while taking a long walk. I had it all cohesively accounted for in the middle of the walk,…
SMS Support Networks to improve resiliency for ‘at-risk’ learners: a quick project outline
Background: ‘At-risk’ and technological interventions A friend and I have been having a back and forth about improving completion rates of ‘at-risk’ students in both secondary schools and in the…
New(ish) modes of meaning-making: mlearning as a Trojan Horse & collaboration via Pinterest
This is a loose assembly of two distinct things wrapped under the logic of modes of meaning-making. The first deals with how mobile learning challenges linearity in higher education, something…
Transactional Distance and Categorizing mLearning: the Heart and the Head
Transactional Distance and Mobile Learning I was writing up some research recently on mobile learning in Korean universities and found the following article quite useful in categorizing activity in mobile…