Models for Interdisciplinary Mobile Learning: Delivering Information to Students

Mobile learning, or m-learning, can take place in any environment using technologies that fit in the palm of the hand or can be easily carried from one place to another.

Models for Interdisciplinary Mobile Learning: Delivering Information to Students investigates m-learning applications in developed and developing countries as individuals and groups embrace mobile systems. This innovative work expands on existing perspectives, applications, theories, and philosophies while also exploring how blended learning practices have developed into mobile learning opportunities.

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

• Augmented reality and mobile technologies
• Mobile learning in action
• Mobile learning in education, business, and medicine
• Mobile learning through SMS text for open and distance learners
• Principles and pedagogies for mobile learning
• Situation-based and activity-based learning strategies
• Standardized, flexible design of electronic learning environments
• Student perceptions and uses of wireless handheld devices
• The use of mobile technologies in a foreign language classroom
• Undergraduate student mobile device use in context