Mobile Learning, Digital Literacies, Information Habitus and At-Risk Social Groups

Evaluating Students’ attitudes and usage e of mobile in educational activities at Paramedical Sciences School

Introduction: Mobile learning is a new way of modern teaching method and a subset of e-learning that refers to a change in thinking about the design and planning of learning goals and environments. The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitude of students of the Medical Sciences School toward the mobile phone in educational activities and its usage. Methods: 150 students of Mashhad...

The Teachers They Are Becoming: Multiple Literacies in Teacher Pre-Service

The authors review all aspects of a Language Arts methods course for pre-service teachers, one which employs a multi-literacies pedagogy (The New London Group, 1996) and is taught at a laptop-based university. The course begins with a deliberate immersion into the complexities of multiple literacies, including digital literacy and critical literacy. The authors outline the course assignments, r...

Investigating the Role of Electronic Education Infrastructures in Enhancement of Mobile Learning and Education at Islamic Azad University Electronic Branch

The production, distribution, and consumption of information are the most important development indices of any nation. Plenty of opportunities were created by e-learning which have overall paved the grounds for and enriched the presentation of learning materials through advanced audiovisual educational facilities. Such learning environments are by and large flexible and provide more appropriate...

The Role of Digital Libraries and Information Centers in E-Learning

Digital literacy as a challenge for Teacher Education

Relationships between technological development and learning are described and the development of cultural tools and external memories are pointed out. The processes of how learning integrates with ICT are viewed from socio-cultural as well as constructionist theoretical perspectives. The concept of digital literacy is understood to be closely related to learning processes as social practices. ...