Mobile Learning / SAS Institute Inc (ePub)

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.