We are trying to establish what existing research has been on the conceptual and theoretical frameworks for understanding the dynamics of mobile learning
Within the standards development world, SC36 have produced a couple of Technical Reports in recent years on Nomadicity & Mobile Learning:
ISO/IEC TS 29140-1:2011
Information technology for learning, education and training -- Nomadicity and mobile technologies -- Part 1: Nomadicity reference model
ISO/IEC TS 29140-2:2011
Information technology for learning, education and training -- Nomadicity and mobile technologies -- Part 2: Learner information model for mobile learning
Within the standards development world, SC36 have produced a couple of Technical Reports in recent years on Nomadicity & Mobile Learning:
ISO/IEC TS 29140-1:2011
Information technology for learning, education and training -- Nomadicity and mobile technologies -- Part 1: Nomadicity reference model
ISO/IEC TS 29140-2:2011
Information technology for learning, education and training -- Nomadicity and mobile technologies -- Part 2: Learner information model for mobile learning
Thanks very much for these resources Jon much appreciated - in particular the Handbook of Mobile Learning looks to be a very good resource on what is state of play and what is happening in this field of research regards Michael
Lenandlar, if you snoop a bit further on Google you might find some pre-print copies of some papers. e.g., http://wiki.teria.no/download/attachments/20676661/SC36_N2114.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1292228142000
"Openness" is a tricky issue. In the case of SC36, the process of consultation is open, but often when final versions get produced ISO needs to recoup funds from somewhere to keep going. No rich philathropist bankrolls all the work. I am very much in favour of openness but we also live in a world where publishing (in books, at least) costs money.
There are also quite a lot of useful resources on the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) website: You can find links there to a mobile app as well as a Mo0bile Learning Handbook that was published about a year ago
The recent ASCILITE (Australasian Society for Computers in Tertiary Education) conference included many freely accessible publications focusing on M learning.
My doctoral thesis might be one source for you. It brings together theoretical ideas of scaffolding learning with collaborative scripts and the use of mobile devices as cognitive tools in a real life educational settings.
I have shared your question on Twitter. This is something that I am very interested in also. I am wanting to collect any theoretical frameworks for mobile learning and literacy as I am working on a paper that will look at a framework for analysing mobile technology applications in terms of literacy.
Participant Perceptions of Mobile Learning Supported Videoconferencing
In A Community of Practice
I am using the "Framework for the Rational Analysis of Mobile Education (FRAME)" model:
Koole, Marguerite. (2009). A Model for Framing Mobile Learning. In M. Ally (Ed.), Mobile learning: Transforming the delivery of education and training (Vol. 1, pp. 25-47): AU Press, Athabasca University.