Mobile as Mainstream - Towards Future Challenges in Mobile Learning

1. Front Matter

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2. Technologies and Interaction

   1. Mobile Learning: An Ergonomic Alternative for Long-Awaited Educational Changes?

      • Thomas Petit, Gilberto Lacerda Santos

      Pages 1-14

   2. Declarative Approach for Adaptivity and Personalization in Mobile Learning: An Algerian Perspective

      • Nadia Khalfallah, Abdellah Boukerram, John Traxler

      Pages 15-28

   3. Using a Commercial Mobile Application as a Mobile Learning Platform

      • Christodoulos Lytridis, Avgoustos Tsinakos

      Pages 29-37

   4. Creating Library Virtual Learning Spaces Supported by Multiple Mobile Devices

      • Ieda M. Santos, Nagla Ali, Gillian Westera, Anthony Hill, Mubarak Al Jabri

      Pages 38-41

3. Tablets and eBook Readers

   1. The Tablet Motivating Mathematics Learning in High School

      • Carlos Fernando Araujo Jr., Eduardo Jesus Dias, Marcos Andrei Ota

      Pages 42-51

   2. Taking eBook Readers to Prisons: A Tale of Two Projects

      • Helen Farley, Angela Murphy, Tas Bedford, Susan Hopkins

      Pages 52-60

4. Learning and Teaching Inside and Outside the Classroom

   1. Exploring Tools to Promote Teacher Efficacy with mLearning

      • Robert Power, Dean Cristol, Belinda Gimbert

      Pages 61-68

   2. Students’ Use of Mobile Phones for School Work

      • Torbjörn Ott, Therese Haglind, Berner Lindström

      Pages 69-80

   3. Students’ Perceptions of Mobile Devices Usage during Class Time and Policy Suggestions for Appropriate Practices

      • Ieda M. Santos, Otávio Bocheco

      Pages 81-91

5. Learning Design and Design Implications

   1. In the Eye of the Beholder: Promoting Learner-Centric Design to Develop Mobile Games for Learning

      • Birgit Schmitz, Marco Kalz, Roland Klemke, Marcus Specht

      Pages 92-106

   2. Building an Mlearning Research Framework through Design Science Research

      • Merryl Ford, Marlien Herselman, Adele Botha

      Pages 107-122

6. Evaluation and Review Studies

   1. A Proposed Evaluation Framework from Mobile Inquiry-Based Learning Activities in Science Education

      • Sohaib Ahmed

      Pages 123-130

   2. On Mobile Learning with Learning Content Management Systems: A Contemporary Literature Review

      • Asiimwe Edgar Napoleon, Grönlund Åke

      Pages 131-145

   3. The Relationship between Students, Mobile Phones and Their Homework

      • Peter Ilic

      Pages 146-155

7. Development and National Perspectives

   1. Mobile Learning for Development: Ready to Randomise?

      • Laurenz Langer, Niall Winters, Ruth Stewart

      Pages 156-167

   2. An M-Learning Solution to Address Critical Healthcare Issues in Ghana: Challenges for Mobile Learning in Developing Countries

      • Agnieszka Palalas, Nicole Berezin, Gretchen Kramer, Joel Kwesi Appiah, Charlotte N. Gunawardena

      Pages 168-181

   3. Pathways to a Better World: Assessing Mobile Learning Policy against UNESCO Guidelines in a New Zealand Case Study

      • David Parsons

      Pages 182-196

   4. Mobile Learning Trends among Students in Vietnam

      • Angela Murphy, Warren Midgley, Helen Farley

      Pages 197-204

   5. Crucial Factors of Implementing Mobile Learning in Sector of VET Organisations in Poland

      • Aleksandra Mykowska, Iwona Kostrzewa, Magdalena Orda

      Pages 205-211

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, mLearn 2014, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in November 2014. The 20 revised full papers and 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on technologies and interaction; tablets and ebook readers; learning and teaching inside and outside the classroom; learning design and design implications; evaluation and review studies; development and national perspectives; inquiry-based learning and science applications; work-based learning; theory; language learning; learner perspectives.

• HCI
• ambient intelligence
• applied computing
• collaborative learning
• distance learning
• e-book readers
• e-learning
• education
• human-centered computing
• interactive learning environments
• learning management systems
• mobile computing
• mobile devices
• mobile phones
• personal digital assistants
• smartphones
• social computing
• tabket computers
• ubiquitous and mobile computing design and evaluation methods
• ubiquitous computing

• Welten Institute, Research Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands

  Marco Kalz, Marcus Specht

• Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Language Education, Bogazici University, Bebek - Istanbul, Turkey

  Yasemin Bayyurt

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