Is this an ipad revolution or mobile learning revolution? A global perspective across countries : ' iWorld, iLearn'
conference contribution
posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00authored byFerial Khaddage, M Shonfeld, M Yildiz, C Latteman, A Reed, E Bray
This evolution of mobile technologies and application integration in education across the world has provided a shift to a new learning environment via various mobile platforms.Educational institutions globally are missing to identify specific mobile technologies initiatives and strategies as a method to evaluate these mobile technologies and to expose both students and teachers to the potential it engenders.This panel will undertake a cross country comparison among culturally diverse countries: Turkey,UAE,USA,Lebanon,Iceland,Israel,Japan,Germany.Questions will be raised such as:Why some countries are branding mobile learning and their integration of these technologies has been made device specific, app specific and operating system specific?Is this the right approach?The digital gap between countries will be discussed?Availability access, barriers and limitations for some countries are described.We will try to figure out similarities,differences and challenges among these countries.
History
Event
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education. International Conference (24th : 2013 : New Orleans, Louisiana)
Pagination
3505 - 3513
Publisher
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana
Place of publication
Chesapeake, Va.
Start date
2013-03-25
End date
2013-03-29
ISBN-13
9781939797025
Language
eng
Publication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice
2013, AACE
Editor/Contributor(s)
R McBride, M Searson
Title of proceedings
SITE 2013 : Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education international conference