Seamless Learning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Theoretical Niches and Frameworks for Seamless Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Conceptual Niche of Seamless Learning: An Invitation to Dialogue

      • Lung-Hsiang Wong, Chee-Kit Looi

      Pages 3-27

   3. The Learning Problems Behind the Seams in Seamless Learning

      • Bernadette Dilger, Luci Gommers, Christian Rapp

      Pages 29-51

   4. External Representations and the Design of Seamless Learning Systems

      • Nuno Otero, Ian Oakley

      Pages 53-72

   5. An Inspiration from Border Crossing: Principle of Boundary Activity for Integrating Learning in the Formal and Informal Spaces

      • Daner Sun, Chee-Kit Looi

      Pages 73-88

3. Architectures and Technologies for Supporting Seamless Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Towards an Architectural Approach to Supporting Collaborative Seamless Learning Experiences

      • Dan Kohen-Vacs, Marcelo Milrad, Marc Jansen

      Pages 91-110

   3. Crossing Over Settings, Practices and Experiences: Connecting Learning in Museums and Classrooms

      • Koula Charitonos

      Pages 111-137

4. Expositions and Experimentations of Seamless Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Sensors for Seamless Learning

      • Marcus Specht, Limbu Bibeg Hang, Jan Schneider Barnes

      Pages 141-152

   3. Designing Seamless Learning Activities for School Visitors in the Context of Fab Lab Oulu

      • Jari Laru, Essi Vuopala, Megumi Iwata, Kati Pitkänen, Ivan Sanchez, Antti Mäntymäki et al.

      Pages 153-169

   4. Supporting Seamless Learning with a Learning Analytics Approach

      • Noriko Uosaki, Kousuke Mouri, Mahiro Kiyota, Hiroaki Ogata

      Pages 171-190

   5. Seamless Writing: How the Digitisation of Writing Transforms Thinking, Communication, and Student Learning

      • Otto Kruse, Christian Rapp

      Pages 191-208

This book introduces readers to the latest state of research and development in seamless learning. It consolidates various approaches to and practices in seamless learning from a range of techno-pedagogical, socio-situated and socio-cultural perspectives. Further, it details our current understanding of learning in both formal and informal settings, crossover learning, incidental learning, and context-based learning approaches, together with these aspects’ linkages to the notion of seamlessness.

The book is divided into sections addressing the theorization of seamless learning, understanding informal learning, research methodological issues, technology-enabled seamless learning and real-world applications of seamless learning.

• Seamless learning
• Continuous learning
• Context-based learning
• Incidental learning
• Formal learning
• Informal learning
• Preparation for learning
• Mobile learning
• Ubiquitous learning
• learning and instruction

• National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

  Chee-Kit Looi, Lung-Hsiang Wong

• Blended Learning Center, HTW Chur, Chur, Switzerland

  Christian Glahn

• Ministry of Education-China Mobile Communications Corporation and School of Educational Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

  Su Cai

Chee-Kit Looi is Professor of Education in the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was the Founding Head of Learning Sciences Lab, Singapore from 2004 to 2008, the first research centre devoted to the study of the sciences of learning in the Asia-Pacific region. His research interests include mobile and seamless learning, and computer-supported collaborative learning. He has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions in Learning Technologies, International Journal of Artifical Intelligence in Education, International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, and Journal of the Learning Sciences. He serves as a foreign expert for the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University, China.


Lung-Hsiang Wong is a Senior Research Scientist in the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include mobile and seamless learning, computer-assisted language learning, computer-supported collaborative learning and teachers’ professional development. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. He was the lead editor of the scholarly book Seamless Learning in the Age of Mobile Connectivity, published by Springer, and the first author of the Chinese scholarly book Move, Language Learning! – Exploring Seamless and Mobile Language Learning, published by Nanjing University Press.


Christian Glahn is the director of the Blended Learning Center and professor for educational technologies at the HTW Chur, Switzerland. He has studied and researched the fields of computer and educational sciences in Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, and Switzerland and is an active in the technology enhanced learning domain. Glahn co-developed and operationalized the concept of micro learning. He is experienced in bridging innovative personalized and context-aware technologies to formal training, non-formal learning, and performance support in universities, public services, and industries. His research focuses on integrating smart technologies into existing technology-enhanced learning environments and practices in higher education institutions and organizations.



Su Cai is the vice director of Joint Laboratory for Mobile Learning, Ministry of Education-China Mobile Communications Corporation and associate professor at School of Educational Technology, Beijing Normal University. He was the Principal Investigator of many research projects such as National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing Education Science "Thirteen Five" Plan, Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and Beijing Natural Science Foundation. His research interests include Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality in Education, 3D Virtual LearningEnvironment and STEM Education.

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