Academia and industry have only begun to explore the vast capabilities that the emerging field of mobile learning has to enrich education. To help researchers and practitioners drive the realization of the potential benefits of mobile learning technology to the next level, a thorough survey of the state of knowledge in this ascending field is vital.

Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies is the first book to comprehensively set out opportunities presented by mobile learning technologies, collecting incisive research articles from leading international experts. Covering field challenges, practical experiences, and current technological advances, this unique contribution to the current research will benefit academics and students in a variety of education and technology-related disciplines, as well as industry specialists in the field mobile technology.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Collaborative Learning
Collaborative technology
Distributed learning environments
Enhanced individual learning experiences
Handheld educational applications
Innovative mobile learning activities
Integrated learning approach
Interactive SMS
Mobile Learning
Mobile multimedia learning environments
Mobile Technologies
Pedagogical Innovation
Personalized mobile environment
Pervasive games
Situated learning experiences

Reviews & Statements

"Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies argues that a holistic approach for encompassing diverse mobile learning themes is necessary to design new kinds of learning activities with mobile technologies, where there is still a lack of well-defined characteristics and features of mobile learning spaces. "

– Hokyoung Ryu, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand.

This collection of research articles, of interest to both academics and educational practitioners, surveys mobile learning research and projects and discusses the latest mobile learning environments beyond the desktoplearning environment.

– Book News Inc. (February 2009)

This edited volume is a comprehensive treatment of theories, issues, methods, advances, and challenges associated ith the emerging array of electronic resources for learning that go well beyond desktop computers.

– The American Journal of Distance Education (2009)

As m-learning is getting increasingly popular, this book is timely and would be a useful guide for selecting appropriate tools, methods and technologies for designing learning experiences. It would help educationalists, academics, administrators of educational institutions, researchers and even those from the corporate world who may desire to initiate or strengthen the practices of teaching and training with mobile technologies.

– Dr. Sutapa Bose, School of Education, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi

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Editor/Author Biographies

Hokyoung Ryu holds a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (1999) and a Ph.D in Psychology from the University of York, U.K. (2004). His current role is as a Lecturer in Information Technology, at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests include Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), mobile usability and mobile learning, publishing more than hundred peer-reviewed articles in conferences, journals, and book chapters. He is currently preparing to edit another mobile learning book tentatively entitled “Designing Themes in Mobile Learning”. He is also authoring two books – "Mobile User Interface Analysis and Design" and “Affordance Design”, and currently an associate editor of the International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation. Dr. Ryu is a member of the British Computer Society’s HCI group and the Centre for Mobile Computing at Massey University

David Parsons is National Postgraduate Director at The Mind Lab by Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand. He has a PhD in Information Technology from Nottingham Trent University (UK) and has wide experience in both academia and industry. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning and author of a number of texts on computer programming, web application development and mobile learning. His work has been published in many international journals, including Computers & Education, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies and Software Practice and Experience. He chaired the Conference on Mobile Learning Technologies and Applications in 2007 and was co-editor of Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies (Information Science Reference, 2009). He is a member of the International Association for Mobile Learning and a professional member of the British Computer Society.

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Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, U.S.A

Jose Bravo, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Yunhi Chang, Dankook University, Korea

Alain Derycke, Université de Lille, France

Peter Doolittle, Virginia Tech, U.S.A

Stephen Downes, National Research Council, Canada

Deniz Eseryel, University of Oklahoma, U.S.A

Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand

Friedrich W. Hesse, University of Tübingen, Germany

Jongbae Kim, Dankook University, Korea

Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada

Matthias Lampe, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Marcelo Milrad, Växjö University, Sweden

Hiroaki Ogata, University of Tokushima, Japan

David Parsons, Massey University, New Zealand

Beryl Plimmer, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Hokyoung Ryu, Massey University, New Zealand

Fosso Wamba Samuel, École Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

Demetrios G. Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece

Rosemary Stockdale, Massey University, New Zealand

Siobhán Thomas, Temple University, U.S.A

Daniel Wessel, University of Tübingen, Germany