MLearning Praxis: A Pragmatic Guide to Implementing Mobile Learning

Abstract

This paper explores approaches to implementing mlearning that focus upon using student-owned mobile devices to enable student-generated content (Bruns, 2008) and student-generated learning contexts (Luckin, et al., 2010). The author explores how this can be achieved and supported with such a variety of mobile devices available and used by students today. The paper evaluates the current options for mobile devices, and discusses an mlearning design framework that can be used to implement social constructivist pedagogy using mobile web 2.0 on a variety of student-owned mobile devices with a minimum of technical expertise from the course lecturer/s. This is informed by drawing upon examples from..