Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2014
Publication Title
Increasing Access through Mobile Learning, edited by Mohamed Ally and Avgoustos Tsinakos, Vancouver, 2014, published by Commonwealth of Learning and Athabasca University
Pages
7-15
Abstract
This chapter provides a brief historical overview of the technology contributing to mobile learning (mLearning) and the concomitant progression towards student-centred pedagogies. To begin, mLearning is defined. The theoretical, pedagogical and conceptual underpinnings of it are then explained, with a focus on the technologies and the pedagogies of each decade, from the 1970s and Kay’s futuristic vision of a mobile learning device, to today’s mobile learning technologies that have surpassed Kay’s vision.
ORCID
0000-0002-1775-8219 (Crompton)
Original Publication Citation
Crompton, H. (2014). A diachronic overview of mobile learning: A shift toward student-centered pedagogies. In M. Ali & A. Tsinakos (Eds.), Increasing access through mobile learning. British Columbia, Canada: Commonwealth of Learning Press and Athabasca University.
Repository Citation
Crompton, Helen, "A Diachronic Overview of Mobile Learning: A Shift Toward Student-Centered Pedagogies" (2014). Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications. 72.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/teachinglearning_fac_pubs/72
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Comments
© 2014 by the Commonwealth of Learning and Athabasca University.
PERSPECTIVES ON OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING: Increasing Access through Mobile Learning is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Licence (International).