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Integrating mobile web 2.0 within tertiary education

This article discusses three years of mobile learning (mlearning) projects. A major implementation project was developed for integrating the use of mobile web 2.0 tools across a variety of departments and courses in a tertiary education environment. A participatory action research methodology guided and informed the project. The project was based upon an explicit social constructivist pedagogy, focusing on student collaboration, and the sharing and critique of student-generated content using freely available web 2.0 services. These include blogs, social networks, location aware (geotagged) image and video sharing, instant messaging, and 'microblogging'. Key elements to the project’s success were the level of pedagogical and technical support and the level of integration of the tools into the courses including assessment and lecturer modeling of the use of the tools. The projects were supported by an intentional community of practice model, with Cochrane. T., taking on the role of the ‘technology steward’.

Case studies leading to this output were discussed in the papers: Cochrane, T., Bateman, R., et al, ‘Mobilizing learning: Mobile web 2.0 scenarios in tertiary education’, presented at EDULEARN09 the 1st International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona, Spain (2009); Cochrane, T., Bateman, R., & Flitta, I., ‘Integrating mobile web 2.0 within tertiary education’, (2009), m-ICTE2009, Lisbon, Portugal, and Cochrane, T., Bateman, R., & Flitta, I., ‘Facilitating social constructivist learning environments for product design students using social software (web2) and wireless mobile devices’, presented at Design/09, the Third International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Technical University Berlin, Germany (2009).