The Mobile Learning Voyage - From Small Ripples to Massive Open Waters: 14th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, mLearn 2015, Venice, Italy, October 17-24, 2015, ProceedingsTom H. Brown, Herman J. van der Merwe This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, mLearn 2015, held in a cruise ship leaving from and arriving to Venice, Italy, in October 2015. The 22 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The papers deal with the topics related to the theme of the conference: "The mobile learning voyage: from small ripples to massive open waters". The conference theme paid tribute to the developments that brought mobile learning from its infancy steps in the early 2000s to maturity in 2015, while simultaneously paving the way for the broad and open waters ahead with new developments and progress in mobile learning, and emerging ambient technologies. |
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Implications of a OnetoOne Laptop Initiative for Professional Learning and Teacher Practices | 31 |
A Synthesis of Existing Qualitative Research | 46 |
Mobile Learning in a Flipped Multimedia Higher Education Classroom | 58 |
Infinite Possibilities for Using Eyetracking for Mobile Serious Games in Order to Improve User Learning Experiences | 70 |
A Mobile Game World for M0101ori Language Learning | 84 |
Using SNSs to Promote STEMI on the Backseat of a Taxi Across Africa | 99 |
Assimilate or Accommodate? The Need to Rethink Current Use of the Term Mobile Learning | 229 |
Challenges of Using a LocationBased Mobile Learning Platform | 239 |
Influencing Everyday Teacher Practices by Applying Mobile Digital Storytelling as a Seamless Learning Approach | 256 |
Towards Design Patterns for Augmented Reality Serious Games | 273 |
A Mixed Methods Study | 283 |
Lifebuoy or Constriction? | 300 |
A Multiple Case Study Approach Exploring Innovation Pedagogical Transformation and Inclusion for Mobile Learning | 315 |
Heutagogial Approaches in the Understanding and Modelling the Adoption of Mobile Learning | 330 |
Mobile Adoption within Higher Education Institutes | 111 |
Use of Web 20 and Mobile Technologies for Developing Argumentative Skills | 129 |
Succeeding Through Mobile Phones | 143 |
Facilitating Knowledge Visualisation as Communication and Knowledge Transfer Mechanism in Postgraduate Learning | 156 |
Developing a Sense of Identity as a Governor Within a Mobile Learning Community | 172 |
Providing Accounting Content and Emotional Support in a Distance Education Course | 184 |
A Photography Project in the UK Supplementary Education | 198 |
Introducing an iPad Innovation into Accounting Tutorials | 217 |
A Case of Google Glass | 343 |
Difficulties Experienced by Students Using Mobile Devices to Access ELearning | 351 |
A Smartphone Toolkit for Citizen Inquiry Learning | 366 |
The Journey from VenueBased Examinations to TakeHome and Online Timed Assessments | 378 |
SocioTechnical Factors that Influence Learning Management Systems Adoption in Developing Countries | 391 |
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