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Higher Education Partnerships for Learning with Mobile Technologies in P-12 Environments

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Advancements in mobile technologies hold promise for supporting teaching and learning in formal and informal educational settings. Although many primary and secondary schools have yet to fully utilize mobile devices to support teaching and learning, increasingly P-12 schools (pre-kindergarten through 12th grade) have partnered with higher education institutions to design and develop mobile learning applications and to seek external funding to support such initiatives. As higher education partners collaborate with primary and secondary educators to realize the promise of mobile learning, they should be mindful to ensure that mobile learning initiatives address historical barriers to successful P-12 technology implementation. Drawing on literature concerning educational technology design and implementation, this chapter offers a framework that higher education and P-12 partners can use to form design teams, conduct needs assessments, develop and test applications, and support leadership for addressing first- and second-order barriers to implementing sustainable mobile learning initiatives.

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Anthony, A.B., Gimbert, B. (2015). Higher Education Partnerships for Learning with Mobile Technologies in P-12 Environments. In: Zhang, Y. (eds) Handbook of Mobile Teaching and Learning. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54146-9_34

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