What is your definition of mobile learning?

Thanks ,i am refering to electronic mobile learning which has been defined by some researchers as the wireless delivery of learning content to students through the use of handheld mobile technology devices.This type of learning allows for anytime and anywhere learning opportunities.

Thanks for the clarification. I thought that is what you meant, but I wanted to make sure. Have you seen the following papers?

Motiwalla, L. F. (2007). Mobile learning: A framework and evaluation. Computers & Education, 49(3), 581-596.

Frohberg, D., Göth, C., & Schwabe, G. (2009). Mobile learning projects–a critical analysis of the state of the art. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 25(4), 307-331.

Huang, J. H., Lin, Y. R., & Chuang, S. T. (2007). Elucidating user behavior of mobile learning: A perspective of the extended technology acceptance model. The Electronic Library, 25(5), 585-598.

Kukulska-Hulme, A., & Traxler, J. (Eds.). (2005). Mobile learning: A handbook for educators and trainers. Psychology Press.

I'd like to add one more specific volume on this topic:

Vavoula, G., Pachler, N., & Kukulska-Hulme, A. (Eds.). (2009). Researching mobile learning: Frameworks, tools and research designs. Bern: Peter Lang.

You may use surveys/questionnairs/interview for qualitative evaluation; for quantitative analysis, you may refer to auto logging data by mobile devices (how much time spent on different apps and functions). However, the latter involves ethical issues, so it is probably not accessible, esp. on a large scale. 

I think that the key metric is the degree to which mobile learning has been incorporated into the curriculum, either of an individual course or of the entire academic program.

There are many studies in the academic literature about mobile learning.  However, in my field, foreign/second language learning, very few of them report that the mobile assisted language learning technology has actually been incorporated into the curriculum.  Short term tests that are not repeated do not represent "embracing" mobile technology.

A suggestion:

Kearney, M., Schuck, S., Burden, K., & Aubusson, P. (2012). Viewing mobile learning from a pedagogical perspective. Research in Learning Technology, 20, 1–13. doi:10.3402/rlt.v20i0.14406

Hello Guys,

This dissertation of the Graduate Program of the Faculty of Education daUniversidade of Brasilia (UNB), along the lines of Education Research, Technologies and Communication, had the guidance of Professor Lucio Teles France, from March 2012 to March de2014. Currently, there is a widespread use of mobile on society and the ambienteescolar. In this scenario, the school and the teachers work to cope comestudantes increasingly connected. The objective of this research was to understand the reasons edesdobramentos the use of cell phones by students in school. Was used comometodologia the Grounded Theory (Grounded Theory) of Glaser and Strauss (1967). Obtained data through interactions on Twitter, online survey and online interviews partirde students who were using the Internet at school by a móvelpessoal device

The theoratical aspects can support. But in practice, if your partipants are in position to use mobile devices in exchanging ideas, creating contacts and searching for information and new knowledge. It also depends on your structure of mobilelearning environment and how you would like to see the opportunities it offers for the learners

Thank you very much Dianah for your reply

Thank you for your reply ,The environment i am looking at is those  learners and teachers in marginalized, poor  communities where you find that even their technology infrastructure is not so good ,how would you measure the extend to which they have  embraced mobile learning ?

Good Tariro. I am working on a similar project. I want to see what learning takes place on mobile devices. Projects have integrated the use of mobile phones in agriculture, health awareness, and other related activities. But less focus is put on what learning takes place on mobile devices for such communities. Or...how learning can be embraced with the use of such mobile devices

Dear,

Before do that please go through this and analyze the impact of social media usage among university students.

best,

thusi

https://globaljournals.org/GJCST_Volume14/5-Influence-of-Facebook-in-Academic.pdf

Tariro:

Here's a recent conference paper on how Social Media can possible be used to measure students' improvement in English writing skills:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263767122_Social_Media_in_Education_Bringing_Your_Classroom_to_Life_-_UWI_Research_Expo_2013

Best regards,

Debra

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Here are two studies measuring university students' levels of ebracing and using mobile devices:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286934975_Prospective_Teachers-Are_They_Already_Mobile?ev=prf_pub

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260746598_Preservice_teachers'_perceptions_about_using_mobile_phones_and_laptops_in_education_as_mobile_learning_tools

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