Research Study on Ubiquitous Learning (uLearning)

Jonathan Nalder in Australia has just posted the Masters thesis that he completed last year at the Queensland University of Technology entitled “The dawn of uLearning: near-future directions for 21st century educators.” The diagram above is a concept map of what is discussed in this thesis, and the paper is a good review of the literature.

One thing that I have a problem with is the notion that just because we crossed the threshold of Y2K into the 21st century doesn’t mean that everything changed, or that those things that have changed will last well into the 21st century. The fact is that many of the changes in learning technologies started in the 1960s, as this history of learning technologies in Wikipedia correctly suggests. The argument that the centuries are radically different is hyperbole – change today happens a lot faster than the time frame of centuries.

Otherwise, this is a useful review of the present state of ubiquitous learning and its technologies. (GW)

Nalder, Jonathan (2008). The dawn of uLearning: near-future directions for 21st century educators. Unpublished Master’s thesis, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.

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