TY - GEN
T1 - Uncoupling mobility and learning: When one does not guarantee the other
AU - Kinash, Shelley
AU - Brand, Jeffrey
AU - Mathew, Trishita
AU - Kordyban, Ron
N1 - © Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Mobile learning was an embedded component of the pedagogical design of an undergraduate course, Digital media and society. In the final semester of 2010 and the first semester of 2011, 135 students participated in an empirical study inquiring into their perceptual experience of mobile learning. To control for access to technology, an optional iPad student loan scheme was used. The iPads were loaded with an electronic textbook and a mobile application of the learning moderation system. Eighty students participated in ten-person focus groups. Feedback on mobility and the electronic text was positive and optimistic. However, the majority of students were not convinced that the trial made a difference to their learning. This result was interpreted to indicate that the presence or absence of mobile devices does not guarantee or preclude student learning.
AB - Mobile learning was an embedded component of the pedagogical design of an undergraduate course, Digital media and society. In the final semester of 2010 and the first semester of 2011, 135 students participated in an empirical study inquiring into their perceptual experience of mobile learning. To control for access to technology, an optional iPad student loan scheme was used. The iPads were loaded with an electronic textbook and a mobile application of the learning moderation system. Eighty students participated in ten-person focus groups. Feedback on mobility and the electronic text was positive and optimistic. However, the majority of students were not convinced that the trial made a difference to their learning. This result was interpreted to indicate that the presence or absence of mobile devices does not guarantee or preclude student learning.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-22383-9_28
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-22383-9_28
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960247531
SN - 9783642223822
VL - 177 CCIS
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 342
EP - 350
BT - Enhancing Learning Through Technology - Education Unplugged: Mobile Technologies and Web 2.0 - International Conference, ICT 2011, Proceedings
A2 - Kwan, R
A2 - McNaught, C
A2 - Tsang, P
A2 - Wang, FL
A2 - Li, KC
PB - Springer
T2 - 6th International Conference on Enhancing Learning Through Technology - Education Unplugged: Mobile Technologies and Web 2.0, ICT 2011
Y2 - 11 July 2011 through 13 July 2011
ER -