Mobile and ubiquitous learning in higher education settings. A systematic review of empirical studies |
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Affiliation: | 1. learning.lab/Institute for Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Peter Merian-Strasse 86, 4002 Basel, Switzerland;2. School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Desmond Clarence Building, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban 4000, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
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Abstract: | Mobile and ubiquitous learning are increasingly attracting academic and public interest, especially in relation to their application in higher education settings.The systematic analysis of 36 empirical papers supports the view that knowledge gains from instructionist learning designs are facilitated by distributed and more frequent learning activities enabled by push mechanisms. They also lend themselves to the activation of learners during classroom lectures. In addition, and as a particular advantage of mobile technology, “hybrid” designs, where learners create multimodal representations outside the classroom and then discussed their substantiated experiences with peers and educators, helped to connect learning in formal and more informal and personalized learning environments.Generally, empirical evidence that would favour the broad application of mobile and ubiquitous learning in higher education settings is limited and because mobile learning projects predominantly take instructionist approaches, they are non-transformatory in nature. However, by harnessing the increasing access to digital mobile media, a number of unprecedented educational affordances can be operationalised to enrich and extend more traditional forms of higher education. |
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Keywords: | Mobile learning Ubiquitous learning Higher education Systematic review |
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