1st Edition

Mobile Learning Communities Creating New Educational Futures

224 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Mobile Learning Communities explores the diverse ways in which traveling groups experience learning ‘on the run’. This book provides empirical evidence that draws on the authors’ 17 years of continuing research with international occupational Travelers. It engages with themes such as workplace learning, globalization, multiliteracies, and emerging technologies which impinge on the ways mobile... Read more

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Acronyms

Introduction: Mobile Learning Communities

1. Networks and Partnerships

2. Lifelong Learning: From the Cradle to the Grave

3. Technologies and Their Users

4. Globalization and Interactions with the Outside World

5. The Knowledge Economy and Workplace Learning

6. Multiliteracies and Meaning-Making

7. Communities at Risk: Building Capacities for Sustainability

8. Marginalization and Transformation

Conclusion: Creating New Educational Futures

Glossary of Terms

References

Index

Biography

Patrick Alan Danaher (BEd, BA, BA(Hons), GradDipTertiaryEd, MLitt, PhD) is Associate Professor in Education (Education Research) at the Toowoomba campus of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

Beverley Moriarty (DipTeach, BEd, MEd, PhD, AMusA) is Senior Lecturer in the School of Teacher Education at the Dubbo campus of Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Geoff Danaher (BA(Hons), DipEd, PhD) is a Lecturer in Learning Support and the Skills for Tertiary Education Preparatory Studies program in the Division of Teaching and Learning Services at the Rockhampton campus of Central Queensland University, Australia.

'most importantly it puts learning in its place by stressing the current conceptual bases for applying technologies' -- British Journal of Educational Technology, Vol 41, No 2, 2010