To take advantage of our ubiquitous access and social networking, we must respond to the learner’s needs so that our learning delivery can be mobile, online, blended, and even when face2face, is digitally enhanced.
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Learning All the Time and Everywhere: Moving Beyond the Hype of the Mobile Learning Quick Fix
Tilisa Thibodeaux (Lamar University, USA), Dwayne Harapnuik (Lamar University, USA), Cindy Cummings (Lamar University, USA), and Rachelle Wooten (Lamar University, USA)
Copyright: © 2018
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3949-0.ch011
Abstract
We are witnessing some of the most significant advancements of technology in most aspects of society, but our educational institutions are still mired in the industrial and information processing models of the nineteenth century. Why? We have used technology as a quick fix and ignored the fact that established organizations are dominated by nineteenth century organizational and management structures and cultures that prevent the effective adoption of twenty-first century technologies. In this chapter, we argue that we can break this cycle of wasteful implementation of educational technology by focusing on learning all the time and everywhere and by shifting our instructional practices away from the command and control teacher-centered perspective to the learner-centered perspective. This shift gives the learner choice, ownership, and voice through authentic learning opportunities that enables them to use technology to learn how to learn and adapt to the challenges of the future.