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Uncoupling Mobility And Learning: When One Does Not Guarantee The Other, Shelley Kinash, Jeffrey Brand, Trishita Mathew, Ron Kordyban
Uncoupling Mobility And Learning: When One Does Not Guarantee The Other, Shelley Kinash, Jeffrey Brand, Trishita Mathew, Ron Kordyban
Ron Kordyban
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 …