Mobile Technologies & Academics: Do Students Use Mobile Technologies in Their Academic Lives and are Librarians Ready to Meet this Challenge?

Mobile Technologies for Mobile Students

The paper deals with analysis of mobile devices as possible students’ and lecturers’ tools in education process. Supporting wireless communication technologies and possibilities of integrating these technologies in studies are also investigated. A technological solution schema is presented. Problems of different its elements selection are analyzed. The advantages and shortcomings of such integr...

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Mobile Methodologies: Experiences from Studies of Mobile Technologies- in-Use

The aim of this paper is to discuss methods for studying the use of mobile technologies. It is argued that many previous studies of mobility are limited in the use of data collection methods in that they use the workplace or other fixed setting as the location to study the mobile technology. In this paper, I relate and discuss experiences from three different studies of mobile technologies. The...

Value-in-use of mobile technologies

Mobile and ubiquitous technologies are considered one of the currently developed technology innovations with greater market potential in the coming future. Such technologies integrate a whole set of IT-based applications used in the private or working environment of individuals and provide extensive service capacities to support users in carrying out several activities and (work) processes. Cha...

Engaging Students with Mobile Technologies to Support Their Formal and Informal Learning