\Since the start of current millennium, experience and expertise in development delivery mobile learning have blossomed a community practice has evolved that is distinct from established communities 'tethered' e-Learning. This currently visible mainly through dedicated international conference series, which MLEARN most prestigious, rather than any journals. So far, these forms focussed on short-term small-scale pilots trials developed countries Europe, North America, Pacific Rim, there...

The launch of the International Journal Mobile and Blended Learning is one several indicators that mobile learning globally reaching a critical sustainable momentum identity. past six or seven years have seen host pilots initiatives across sectors countries these established firstly takes to individuals, communities where access was challenging problematic secondly enhances, enriches extends how understood. Environmental factors meant this development has been haphazard. community now faced...

Education systems, educational institutions and professions, including those of distance learning, can often be inward-looking, backward-looking self-referential, meaning that they are fixated on their own concerns, values processes. In many respects, this is necessary valuable but the topic challenges future trends in learning an opportunity to explore place a wider world where cultures ideologies clash, education employment no longer stable secure, universities colleges under unprecedented...

The paper addresses the question of how to design for learning taking place on mobile and wireless devices. authors argue that activity designers need consider characteristics learning; at same time, it is vital realise learners are already creating experiences themselves. Profound changes in computer usage brought about by social networking user-generated content challenging idea educators charge designing learning. make a distinction between designed activity, carefully crafted advance,...

This special edition of Distance Education is dedicated to mobile learning. As such it seeks connect two rather different communities and specifically introduce explain the work sm...

Many educators advocate, promote and encourage the dreams of agency, control, ownership choice amongst students whilst educational institutions take responsibility for provision, equity, access, participation standards. The traditionally procure, provide control technology learning but now are acquiring their own personal technologies challenged to keep pace. These allow produce, store, transmit consume information, images ideas; this potentially realises educators' dream is a nightmare, one...

Many educators advocate, promote and encourage the dreams of agency, control, ownership choice amongst students whilst educational institutions take responsibility for provision, equity, access, participation standards. The traditionally procure, provide control technology learning but now are acquiring their own personal technologies challenged to keep pace. These allow produce, store, transmit consume information, images ideas; this potentially realises educators’ dream is a nightmare, one...

The COVID-19 global pandemic resulted in the cancellation of face-to-face classes Mexico, as it did across world. This paper focuses on experiences 75 rural teachers who represent a minority country where approximately 80% population lives urban areas. An online survey was administered to participants, taught variety schools, including K-12 and university settings. These participants shared how they changed their teaching practice, challenges faced, support required. digital divide...

Learning with mobiles in UK universities is not new and novel. It is, fact, at least 10 years old, well-documented comparable to activity elsewhere Western Europe, America Asia Pacific. Continued dramatic changes the ownership, access expectations of amongst university students equally across society have suddenly propelled learning centre-stage as a feasible proposition but, it now argued, only if can bring-your-own-device. This has already catalysed discussion about authority, agency...

This paper is the first attempt to explore digital literacy in specific context of Palestinian refugee community Middle East by looking at cultural specificity theorising and practice, analysing current education policy countries hosting documenting environment refugee. It identifies distance or deficit between community's access education, appropriately defined, its environment, needs opportunities. Finally, provides a brief agenda for further empirical research.Published: 7 March...

Mobile learning can be characterised as a specific project within the education system. This paper explores sustainability of mobile in wider context that devices are near-universal and their impact brings connectedness to people, data, content, media. There consequently subtle but pervasive transformations jobs, work, economy, sense time, space place, knowing learning, community identity, which call system, project, into question.

This paper explores relationships between recent developments in the fields of mobilities, futures, and postdigital studies. The article covers six main themes: questions their histories; definitions; research methods ethics; nature ownership knowing learning; understandings time, space, identity, community, relationships; political processes legitimacy. was written three steps. In first step, leading author (John Traxler) has identified relevant themes. second proponents each position have...

Educational technology (EdTech) has become commonplace in modern educational practice [...]

Larval indices such as the house index (HI), Breteau (BI) and container (CI) are widely used to interpret arbovirus vector density in surveillance programmes. However, use of data an alarm signal is rarely considered consciously when planning The present study aims investigate spatial distribution pattern infestation Aedes aegypti, considering available Ae. aegypti Infestation Index Rapid Survey (LIRAa) for city Campina Grande, Paraíba State Brazil.The global local Moran's were analysis...