The impact of mobile learning on students’ learning behaviours and performance: Report from a large blended classroom

By Minjuan Wang ¹ , Ruimin Shen ² , Daniel Novak ¹ , Xiaoyan Pan <sup>2

1</sup> San Diego State University
² Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU)

British Journal of Educational Technology.  Volume 40 Issue 4, Page 673-695 (Published online)

Abstract

Chinese classrooms, whether on school grounds or online, have long suffered from a lack of interactivity. Many  online classes simply provide recorded instructor lectures, which only reinforces the negative effects of passive nonparticipatory learning. At Shanghai Jiaotong University, researchers and developers actively seek technologic interventions that can greatly increase interactivity in large blended classes. They developed a cutting-edge mobile learning system that can deliver live broadcasts of real-time classroom teaching to students with mobile devices.

The Impact of Web-Based Lecture Technologies on Current and Future Practices in Learning and Teaching (April 2008)

by: Maree Gosper, David Green, Margot McNeill, Rob Phillips, Greg Preston, Karen Woo.

This is the final report of the project, The Impact of Web-based Lecture Technologies on
Current and Future Practice in Learning and Teaching, which was funded by the Carrick
Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education through its 2006 Competitive Grants
Scheme. The duration of the project was from 1 August 2006 to 28 March 2008.
The project, led by Macquarie University, was a cross institutional collaboration of Innovative
Research Universities of Australia – Murdoch University, Flinders University and the University
of Newcastle.
The aim of the project was to investigate how web-based lecture technologies – (Lectopia and
similar technologies) can be used to best effect to support learning and teaching.

Click here to read the full report.

New Journal on mobile and blended learning: IJMBL

International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL) – An Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association — New in 2009

From the website: “Technology supported learning has been increasingly used across a broad spectrum of educational contexts, in many cases being integrated with more traditional forms of teaching. As new opportunities have emerged for mobile, immersive and augmented learning, freeing electronic teaching tools from the desktop, researchers have begun to explore the wide potentials of learning experiences that are integrated with both the classroom and the world outside, leveraging the boundless new possibilities that a pervasively wired and wireless society can support. The International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning aims to provide a forum for researchers in this field to share their knowledge and experience of mobile and blended learning environments”

Dave Parsons is the Editor.