On Friday the 3rd of September at 10.00, Professor John Cook, Learning Technology Research Institute, London Metropolitan University presents:
"Mobile Phones as Mediating Tools Within Augmented Contexts for
Development"
Abstract
The nature of learning is being enhanced by mobile devices and the
networks and media to which they connect people. Consequently, in my talk I argue for the need to reexamine approaches to the design of and research into learning experiences that incorporate mobile/cell phones in the learning context. Following an overview of ‘mobile learning’, I advance my argument by describing two initiatives.
Firstly, Design Research is presented as an approach that tends to have interventionist characteristics, is process oriented and contributes to theory building.
Secondly, I describe an educational problem that mobile learning tries to solve, namely the design of Augmented Contexts for Development (Cook, 2009a); these place context as a core construct that enables collaborative, location-based, mobile device mediated problem solving where learners generate their own ‘temporal context for development’; a case study (CONTSENS) is used to reify this Vygotskian-oriented initiative. I then go on to further argue that our understanding of how to design for these new augmented contexts can benefit from a re-examination
of Design Research. The seminar will address questions such as: -what does the shift in the use of mobile devices for informal, formal and work-based learning mean for the collection and analysis of data and what methods might we employ in a systematic, iterative and interventionist Design Research effort?
More information on John:
John Cook (PhD MSc BSc CEng MBCS CITP FHEA) is Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at the Learning Technology Research Institute,
London Metropolitan University.
John is a founding member of Mobile Learning Group
(http://www.londonmobilelearning.net). John sits on various journal
editorial boards and conducts Assessor and review work for the ESRC, EPSRC, EU, UK Government and Science Foundation of Ireland.
For more information:http://staffweb.londonmet.ac.uk/~cookj1/
"Mobile Phones as Mediating Tools Within Augmented Contexts for
Development"
Abstract
The nature of learning is being enhanced by mobile devices and the
networks and media to which they connect people. Consequently, in my talk I argue for the need to reexamine approaches to the design of and research into learning experiences that incorporate mobile/cell phones in the learning context. Following an overview of ‘mobile learning’, I advance my argument by describing two initiatives.
Firstly, Design Research is presented as an approach that tends to have interventionist characteristics, is process oriented and contributes to theory building.
Secondly, I describe an educational problem that mobile learning tries to solve, namely the design of Augmented Contexts for Development (Cook, 2009a); these place context as a core construct that enables collaborative, location-based, mobile device mediated problem solving where learners generate their own ‘temporal context for development’; a case study (CONTSENS) is used to reify this Vygotskian-oriented initiative. I then go on to further argue that our understanding of how to design for these new augmented contexts can benefit from a re-examination
of Design Research. The seminar will address questions such as: -what does the shift in the use of mobile devices for informal, formal and work-based learning mean for the collection and analysis of data and what methods might we employ in a systematic, iterative and interventionist Design Research effort?
More information on John:
John Cook (PhD MSc BSc CEng MBCS CITP FHEA) is Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at the Learning Technology Research Institute,
London Metropolitan University.
John is a founding member of Mobile Learning Group
(http://www.londonmobilelearning.net). John sits on various journal
editorial boards and conducts Assessor and review work for the ESRC, EPSRC, EU, UK Government and Science Foundation of Ireland.
For more information:http://staffweb.londonmet.ac.uk/~cookj1/
