Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Developers, Educators, and Learners

Explore the game-changing technology that allows mobile learning to effectively reach K-12 students

Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Developers, Educators and Learners provides research-based foundations for developing, evaluating, and integrating effective mobile learning pedagogy. Twenty-first century students require twenty-first century technology, and mobile devices provide new and effective ways to educate children.

But with new technologies come new challenges—therefore, this handbook presents a comprehensive look at mobile learning by synthesizing relevant theories and drawing practical conclusions for developers, educators, and students.

Mobile devices—in ways that the laptop, the personal computer, and netbook computers have not—present the opportunity to make learning more engaging, interactive, and available in both traditional classroom settings and informal learning environments. From theory to practice, Mobile Learning explores how mobile devices are different than their technological predecessors, makes the case for developers, teachers, and parents to invest in the technology, and illustrates the many ways in which it is innovative, exciting, and effective in educating K-12 students.

• Explores how mobile devices can support the needs of students
• Provides examples, screenshots, graphics, and visualizations to enhance the material presented in the book
• Provides developers with the background necessary to create the apps their audience requires
• Presents the case for mobile learning in and out of classrooms as early as preschool
• Discusses how mobile learning enables better educational opportunities for the visually impaired, students with Autism, and adult learners.

If you’re a school administrator, teacher, app developer, or parent, this topical book provides a theoretical, well-researched discussion of the pedagogical theory and mobile learning, as well as practical advice in setting up a mobile learning strategy.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Changing Education with Mobile Learning

Section 1: The Mobile Classroom
Chapter 2: The Science of Learning
Chapter 3: What Is It about These Devices?
Chapter 4: Creating the Mobile Classroom
Chapter 5: Higher-Order Thinking Skills and Digital Fluency
Chapter 6: Instructional Management and Levels of Technology Access

Section 2: Creating the Mobile Learning Experience
Chapter 7: Mobile Technology’s Defining Features
Chapter 8: The Educational App Development Process
Chapter 9: Design and User Experience
Chapter 10: Data, Evaluation, and Learning Analytics
Chapter 11: The Business of Educational Apps

Section 3: Mobile Learning for Everyone
Chapter 12: Informal Learning
Chapter 13: Engaging Young Users: Apps for Preschoolers
Chapter 14: Making Accessible Apps: Autism and Visual Impairment
Chapter 15: Balancing Power: Data Use, Privacy, and Digital Citizenship
Chapter 16: Mobile Learning Today and Tomorrow

Appendix A: List of Apps by Chapter
Appendix B: The Great App Checklist