Unplugging the Classroom

As mobile platforms have proliferated, they have contributed to new learning practices. Higher education must learn to work with technologies that did not exist just a decade ago, but today are an integral part of lifestyles across all demographics. This book will provide techniques to help teaching and learning in an age where technology un-tethers instruction from the classroom, from semester seat-time, and from a single source of expertise. The book brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse academic fields including library perspectives. The book combines interdisciplinary perspectives from both theoretical and applied areas. It is unique in bringing together educators and librarians to explore the challenges that are faced by students and faculty in any time, any place, any path, any pace learning. In spite of the fact that the mobile revolution has definitively arrived, students and faculty alike aren’t ready to make the leap to mobile learning. Yet doing so is essential in education. The pressures of technological advances, along with the changing nature of learning, will demand increasingly profound changes in education. Researchers have begun to address this issue, but the revolution in mobile communication has not been accompanied by a concomitant growth in pedagogical resources for educators and students. More importantly, such growth needs to be under-girded by sound learning theories and examples of best practice. This book does exactly that. Provides a hands-on resource useful to both novices and experts for technology-enabled teaching and learningAs applicable to the traditional classroom as to the online classroomGives both discipline-specific and cross-disciplinary perspectives. Each mobile learning technique discusses discipline-specific applications, yet the book moves beyond traditional disciplinary and boundariesOffers an opportunity to meet the needs of contemporary learners and foster their competencies as lifelong learnersWith its focus on mobile learning, the proposed book is unique in addressing emerging issues in technology and pedagogy