Dominic Mentor

Dominic Mentor (Ed.D.) is an Adjunct Asst. Prof. at Teachers College, Columbia University. He initiated and co-designed the USA’s first mLearning graduate class and a social media fellowship for the NYC Mayor’s Office of Adult Education. He received the Optimas Gold Vision 2014 award from Workforce Magazine for his work in the non-profit sector, developing young talent and won First Prize in the Blended Learning category of the 2015 International E-Learning Awards for E&M Learning -Connected Collaborative Teaching and Learning Communities. He was panel speaker at the inaugural 2015 Global MindED conference, keynote speaker at the 2014 Educational Technology summit in South Africa and 2012 Technology in Education conference at William Patterson University. Other presentations include African Center for Education, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Adelphi University, Baruch College and TEDx, UNESCO Mobile Learning (Paris, France),Harvard’s 21st Century Academic Forum Conference (Boston, USA), and eLearning in the Workplace 2014 conference. Recent publications: A chapter in Tablets in K-12 Education: Integrated Experiences and Implications, and Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior. Other publications include articles in Educause 1. Teaching America’s First Course on Mobile Phone Learning and 2. Supporting Students’ Connectedness via Texting.

Publications

Handbook of Research on New Media, Training, and Skill Development for the Modern Workforce

The abrupt shift to online learning brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the need for the adoption and application of new media, virtual training, and online skill...

TLC for MOOCs: Teaching and Learning Communities for Computer Programming

This chapter reports on a sustainable model created to increase engagement, success, and retention in a MOOC for learning computer programming within a United States-based...

Digital Film-Making Response to a Hate Crime: Narratives of Immigrant Youth

This chapter revisits the creation and results of cultivating mobile journalism and film making skills with middle and high schoolers in Long Island. The youth digital film...

The Rising Battle for the Planet of the Apps: Moving From an L-Class to an M-Class Planet

This chapter introduces mobile learning for individuals, groups, and macro-level mLearning for personal and professional development. The chapter offers practical application of...

Experiential Learning for Telehealth in Sports Science and Allied Health

This chapter offers concepts to leverage experiential learning in electronic (e-) and mobile (m-) learning environments with examples from talent development and allied...

Using Mobile Phones for Assessment in Contemporary Classrooms

The main focus of this chapter will be using mobile assessment (m-assessment) for teaching and learning in formal and informal education. M-assessment has been handy for...

Micro to Macro Social Connectedness Through Mobile Phone Engagement

The literature on social connectedness through mobile phone engagement reveals positive tacit opportunities. Mobile phone engagement hosts micro and macro opportunities to start...

Mobile Learning for Social Change: Democratizing Education and Civic Engagement

This chapter focuses on how mobile apps and smartphones can be used to enhance democratic education in schools and society at large, why such opportunities need to be more...

Mobile Learning for Social Change: Democratizing Education and Civic Engagement

This chapter focuses on how mobile apps and smartphones can be used to enhance democratic education in schools and society at large, why such opportunities need to be more...

Advancing Mobile Learning in Contemporary Educational Spaces

Mobile learning is an educational strategy that uses mobile technologies in order to promote and enable learning. Mobile learning also encompasses efforts to support broad...

Digital Narratives of Immigrant Youth: Cultivating Mobile Activism and Mobile Journalism Skills

This chapter focused on cultivating mobile activism mobile journalism with middle and high schoolers of a town in Long Island. The youth film production effort was in response to...

Mobile Phones for Assessment: Anywhere, Anytime, by Anyone

This chapter focuses on using mobile assessment (m-assessment) for teaching and learning in formal and informal education settings. M-assessment has been helpful in making...

Electronic and Mobile Learning for Workforce Development

This chapter covers the construction of a digital ecosystem grown organically to digitize a workforce development organization. A criteria matrix was developed from a listening...

Computer-Mediated Learning for Workforce Development

Technology has become a driving force of innovation in every industry and professionals need to strengthen their proficiency in emerging technologies to remain competitive....

Micro to Macro Social Connectedness Through Mobile Phone Engagement

The literature on social connectedness through mobile phone engagement reveals positive tacit opportunities. Mobile phone engagement hosts micro and macro opportunities to start...

EMxC3 = e&mLearning Cultivating Connected Communities: Sustainable Workforce Talent Development

This chapter covers the building of an ecological system to convert a workforce development organization to adopt blended electronic and mobile learning (e&mLearning) as part of...

TLC for MOOCS: Teaching and Learning Communities for Computer Programming

This chapter reports on efforts to create a sustainable model to increase engagement, success, and retention in a MOOC for learning computer programming, for a U.S.-based...

Digital Narratives of Immigrant Youth: Cultivating Mobile Activism and Mobile Journalism Skills

This chapter focused on cultivating mobile activism mobile journalism with middle and high schoolers of a town in Long Island. The youth film production effort was in response to...

mClass Planet of the Apps: The Rise of Mobile Learning

This chapter introduces how mobile devices can be used on a personal and macro level for professional development. The chapter also covers theories posited for practical...

Conceptualizing Experiential Learning for Computer-Mediated Engagement

This chapter aims to equip readers with a conceptual understanding to help them leverage experience-based learning in electronic (e) and mobile (m) learning environments. We are...

The Commuter's Learning Journey: Field Observations Informing Mobile Learning Initiatives

This chapter covers a five-year research project using field observations to document mobile use in different contexts. The critical incident technique is used to interrogate the...

Handbook of Research on Mobile Learning in Contemporary Classrooms

It is the responsibility of educators to utilize contemporary avenues in order to reach their students in ways familiar to them. When teaching digital natives, new techniques are...

Using Mobile Phones for Assessment in Contemporary Classrooms

The main focus of this chapter will be using mobile assessment (m-assessment) for teaching and learning in formal and informal education. M-assessment has been handy for...

EMxC3 = e&mLearning Cultivating Connected Communities: Sustainable Workforce Talent Development

This chapter covers the building of an ecological system to convert a workforce development organization to adopt blended electronic and mobile learning (e&mLearning) as part of...

The Commuter's Learning Journey: Field Observations Informing Mobile Learning Initiatives

This chapter covers a five-year research project using field observations to document mobile use in different contexts. The critical incident technique is used to interrogate the...

Mobile Learning for Social Change: Democratizing Education and Civic Engagement

This chapter focuses on how mobile apps and smartphones can be used to enhance democratic education in schools and society at large, why such opportunities need to be more...

From App Attack to Goal-Oriented Tablet Use

There is a need to move from the hype of tablets and apps to the usefulness and functionality of tablets' hypermedia capabilities to engage K – 12 students and teachers....

Mobile Phone Use Enhances Social Connectedness

This article focuses on the relationship between everyday mobile messaging and social connectedness. It highlights studies in which people use mobile messaging as a means of...