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ERIC Number: ED598738
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 394
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: 978-1-5225-9351-5
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Advancing Mobile Learning in Contemporary Educational Spaces. Premier Reference Source
Mentor, Dominic, Ed.
IGI Global
Mobile learning is an educational strategy that uses mobile technologies in order to promote and enable learning. Mobile learning also encompasses efforts to support broad educational goals across numerous fields as it caters to the effective administration of learning systems and more improved communication between educational institutions, students, and their families. "Advancing Mobile Learning in Contemporary Educational Spaces" is a critical scholarly book that provides current research on the applications of mobile and handheld technologies in education. Highlighting the use of mobile technologies across multiple discipline areas such as healthcare, language learning, and film studies, this book is excellent for practitioners, educators, educational policymakers, administrators, instructional designers, learning and development professionals, medical and mental health practitioners, academicians, and researchers. This book contains the following chapters: (1) A Case for Leveraging Mobile Learning in Action Learning Teams (Shawn McCann); (2) Developing an "App-titude" for Cooking: Helping Adults Promote Positive Cooking Skills With Children via Mobile Web-Based Accessible Media (Jamie L. Krenn); (3) Mobile-Assisted Language Learning From Language Instructors' Perspectives (Brenda I. Lopez Ortiz and Mara J. Luna); (4) mHealth Interventions for Self-Management of Chronic Disease (Cristina A. Sumilang); (5) Mobile Phones for Assessment: Anywhere, Anytime, by Anyone (Füsun Sahin and Dominic Mentor); (6) Visualizing the Evolution of Mobile Learning Research (Hüseyin Özçinar); (7) Electronic and Mobile Learning for Workforce Development (Dominic Mentor); (8) Power up Learning With Mobile Games: The Educational Arcade -- An Innovative Approach to Learning (Kristin Villanueva and Jeanny Vaidya); (9) Machitia: An Educator-Focused Liberation Platform for Education (Joél-Léhi Organista); (10) M-Learning Apps for Film Studies: An Approach Towards Self-Determined Learning (Jeanny Vaidya); (11) Utilizing Mobile Learning for Orphans Aging Out: Orphan Youth Development in Peru With Universal Lessons (Tara Callen); and (12) Mobile Apps, Universal Design, and Accessibility in Schools: Creating an Inclusive Classroom Experience (Tseday Alehegn and Richard Keller). A section about the contributors and an index are also included.
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Publication Type: Books; Collected Works - General
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education; Elementary Education
Audience: Practitioners; Policymakers; Teachers; Administrators; Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Peru
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