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This explores how improved functionality and design as well as market proliferation mean these devices are now finally primed as effective mobile learning tools.
As with the study of any learning phenomenon, it makes sense to consider smartphone learning in the context of a broad pedagogical framework that takes account of the individual learner, their social interactions and their environment. Koole (2006) devised one such framework for mobile learning design, which has been used both in the instructional design of resources, and also in the employment of those resources for training, teaching and learning. At its highest level, the framework explores the concepts of learner, social and technology, and their convergence. These same concepts have been employed in the writing of this White Paper for the considering of smartphone learning.
Epic's White Paper finds that smartphones may have the potential to do much than traditional e-learning can do, but with the added advantage of offering it on the move. Even more exciting is that because it’s a phone, it’s embedded in our everyday lives, and so brings us one step closer to a technological device that offers ubiquitous learning. Perhaps the future is here, and perhaps it’s in your hands already?
The White Paper can be downloaded for free from Epic's website at:
http://www.epic.co.uk/thinking/white-papers.html
Source: Epic
