The whole World has gone mobile crazy. So many people now have smartphones or tablets. Students often have more than one such device and they are very used to using them for social activities. Integrating mobile technologies into teaching can open up a range of learning opportunities.
For example the use of mobile devices can facilitate situated learning, where students in work or just out and about experiencing something related to their course, can easily record the experience or work activity and share this with others for discussion. In class various approaches to engagement, brainstorming in groups, in class voting can be done through exploitation of handheld devices and extraordinarily easy to use web based systems to support such activities.
The use of mobile approaches to learning can help students learn any time and any place and can form an important aspect of a flipped classroom approach to curriculum delivery.
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