Abstract
Mobile learning (m-learning) tools foster seamless learning environments that create new possibilities for practitioners to design innovative learning activities, as well as for students to learn in contextualised settings. Nevertheless, m-learning also entails difficulties as for instance, the aforementioned stakeholders should consider learning that happens across physical and digital spaces, blending elements from formal and informal learning. Thus, it is crucial to understand how existing m-learning technologies contribute to make learning effective and efficient. This chapter aims to present an overview of the pedagogical affordances of m-learning tools and the support that they provide to design and analytics practices of different stakeholders (during the learning activity life cycle). Concretely, we analyse nine tools resulting from a systematic review on LD and LA, in m-learning. We propose an analytical framework of orchestration affordances and use it together with the iPAC framework, to look respectively at the orchestration affordances of the tools throughout the life cycle of the learning activities and their pedagogical affordances. The results show the support that the tools offer to the phases of the learning activity life cycle, as well as the role that aligning LD and LA practices can play in this respect for different stakeholders’ practices. Moreover, we identify a number of gaps needing further investigation that can lead to future research avenues in m-learning.
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This research has been partially funded by the European Union in the context of CEITER under grant 669074. We would like to thank the authors of the tools that participated in this study.
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Pishtari, G., Rodríguez-Triana, M.J. (2022). An Analysis of Mobile Learning Tools in Terms of Pedagogical Affordances and Support to the Learning Activity Life Cycle. In: Gil, E., Mor, Y., Dimitriadis, Y., Köppe, C. (eds) Hybrid Learning Spaces. Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88520-5_10
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