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Education for Practice in a Hybrid Space

Enhancing Professional Learning with Mobile Technology

  • Offers a mobile technology capacity building framework for academics and workplace educators to promote the purposeful and skilful use of technologies in workplace learning and practice
  • Connects workplace learning with the education of future professionals and their later development
  • Provides a critical discussion of the strengths and shortcomings of using mobile technology to enhance workplace education
  • Shares ideas on creating authentic learning opportunities for students to help them become agentic, knowledgeable, and responsible future professionals
  • Helps to identify innovative and creative approaches to enhance workplace learning with mobile technology

Part of the book series: Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice (UTLP)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Conceptual Framing of Mobile Technology-Enhanced Workplace Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Setting the Scene: Professional Learning in a Hybrid Space

      • Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane
      Pages 3-18
    3. Workplace Learning as a Hybrid Space

      • Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane
      Pages 19-31
    4. mLearning in Workplace Learning

      • Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane
      Pages 33-46
    5. Designing a Mobile Technology Capacity Building Framework for Workplace Learning

      • Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane
      Pages 47-67
  3. Mobile Technology Capacity Building Strategies for Workplace Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
    2. Staying Professional and Safe

      • Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane
      Pages 71-84
    3. Considering Issues of Time and Place

      • Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane
      Pages 85-97
    4. Planning Learning Activities

      • Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane
      Pages 99-109
    5. Initiating Dialogue

      • Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane
      Pages 111-123
    6. Networking

      • Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane
      Pages 125-140
    7. Creating Learning Opportunities On-the-Go

      • Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane
      Pages 141-155
    8. Deepening Reflection

      • Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane
      Pages 157-169
  4. Extending Professional Learning and Practice Through Mobile Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
    2. Epistemic Fluency and Mobile Technology: A Professional-Plus Perspective

      • Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane
      Pages 173-187
    3. Learning to Be a Deliberate Professional in the Mobile Age

      • Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane
      Pages 189-200
    4. Fostering Agency to Enhance Learning and Working with Mobile Technology

      • Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane
      Pages 201-210
  5. Correction to: Education for Practice in a Hybrid Space

    • Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane
    Pages C1-C4

About this book

This book presents a mobile technology capacity building framework that offers academics, students, and practitioners involved in workplace education a deeper understanding of, and practical guidance on, how mobile technology can enhance professional learning. Approaching professional and workplace learning as a hybrid space in which work, learning and technology meet, the book discusses the value of mobile technology in shaping professional education, particularly during student placements.

The framework focuses on staying professional and safe, considering issues of time and place, planning learning activities, initiating dialogue, networking, creating learning opportunities on-the-go, and deepening reflection. It is designed to assist students and their educators to use mobile technology knowledgeably and responsibly, and to help bridge the gap between university learning and workplace practice.

This book also contributes to a better understanding of the interconnectedness between learning, practice and technology. It demonstrates how to enhance learning and working with mobile technology by drawing on two perspectives: the ‘professional-plus’ and the ‘deliberate professional’. 



Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia

    Franziska Trede, Celina McEwen

  • The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia

    Lina Markauskaite

  • Deakin University, Burwood, Melbourne, Australia

    Susie Macfarlane

About the authors

Franziska Trede is an Associate Professor of Higher Education and Professional Practice at the Institute for Interactive Media and Learning, University of Technology Sydney. Her research primarily focuses on professional practice, professional identity development, social justice, agency, and arts-based methodologies. She recently co-edited (with Celina McEwen) the book Educating the deliberate professional: Preparing for future practices.


Lina Markauskaite is an Associate Professor and Co-director of the Centre for Research on Learning and Innovation, The University of Sydney. Her primary research focus is on understanding the nature of knowledge work and learning by analysing the capacities needed to solve novel, complex problems in contemporary interdisciplinary contexts. She recently published the book Epistemic Fluency and Professional Education: Innovation, Knowledgeable Action and Actionable Knowledge (with Peter Goodyear).


Susie Macfarlane is a Senior Lecturer in Learning Futures at Deakin University, where she leads a team transforming teaching and assessment in the Faculty of Health. Her main research interests are in academic identity; inclusive, video and dialogic feedback; and sessional staff professional development. She is currently completing her PhD on evaluative judgement at the Centre for Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University.


Celina McEwen is a researcher in the sociology and anthropology of education at the University of Technology Sydney. Her work spans the fields of professional, higher, and community education. In collaboration with Franziska Trede, she has developed the concept of the ‘deliberate professional’ and its associated ‘pedagogy of deliberateness’ as a way of reconciling critical thinking, participation and responsibility in professional practice and professional education.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Education for Practice in a Hybrid Space

  • Book Subtitle: Enhancing Professional Learning with Mobile Technology

  • Authors: Franziska Trede, Lina Markauskaite, Celina McEwen, Susie Macfarlane

  • Series Title: Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7410-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7409-8Published: 25 June 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7412-8Published: 14 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7410-4Published: 17 May 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2522-0845

  • Series E-ISSN: 2522-0853

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 210

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Learning & Instruction, Educational Technology, Professional & Vocational Education

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eBook USD 54.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 99.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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