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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOBILE LEARNING AND ORGANISATION Special Issue on: "Current Mobile Learning Technologies and Applications"
Edited by: Dr. Hokyoung Ryu, Dr. David Parsons, and Professor Tony Norris, Massey University, New Zealand
Aims and Objectives
Recent developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide new technical opportunities to exercise a novel learning environment - mobile learning (M-learning), which goes far beyond the traditional learning paradigms, i.e., classroom and e-learning. For instance, the Ambient Wood project carried out by Sussex University (U.K) has demonstrated how a mobile and ambient environment can provide a more effective learning experience than traditional classroom learning. In another learning context, MIT (U.S.A) has developed an M-learning tool to help students understand complex and dynamic epidemic phenomena, simulating them with learners' wearable mobile devices, demonstrating significant advantages over current e-learning applications. Even Nintendo's DS handheld console is to provide an enjoyable way to improve English skills. In addition to these academic cases, many other domains (e.g., health practitioners) also see the advantages of M-learning environments in providing personalised content (e.g., dietary information, quit smoking programmes) via the mobile phones that have become so pervasive in recent years. The International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organization (IJMLO) is therefore publishing a special issue on "Current Mobile Learning Technologies and Applications", which will be a timely issue for both academics and practitioners who are interested in the design and development of effective learning environments.
The issue intends to discuss the latest M-learning applications and technologies beyond the desktop computing environment, an area of research that is increasingly seeing new developments and techniques in both the academic and commercial domains. How to effectively take the user into account within the emerging M-learning environment has formed a persistent theme in the academic field. In contrast, much of the industry perspective on M-learning applications has been what kind of learning products and content can facilitate the uptake of this new learning environment.
The purpose of the special issue is therefore to disseminate studies about how we meet the challenges of this technology, practical experiences of the design of M-learning environments, the current development M-learning systems in either academia or industry, current methods and approaches to M-learning development, the current economic and social context of M-learning development and empirical research into contemporary M-learning environments.
Subject Coverage
This special issue aims at presenting a selection of papers addressing the topics indicated above, but is not limited to them. The following topics are also equally welcome.
§ Currently implemented M-learning applications § Technologies that directly support mobile learning systems (devices, networks, tools etc.) § Studies of mobile learning in practice § Reviews of the application of M-learning in multiple contexts § Uses of M-learning in professional learning environments, e.g., Mobile Health, Mobile Commerce § Constraints in the delivery of M-learning, e.g., Human-Computer Interaction issues in mobile learning environments § Mobile games for learning § The role of Wikis, blogs, podcasts, messaging, other on-line tools and Web 2.0 components in M-learning systems § Support for learner interaction and mobile collaborative learning § Privacy and security issues in M-learning § The role of location based services in learning § The future of M-learning
Submission of papers
Optional proposal deadline [*] Dec. 1, 2006 Full paper deadline Mar. 16, 2007 Notification of acceptance and Review results Apr. 20, 2007 Revised submission deadline Jun. 15, 2007 Camera-ready version deadline Jul. 1, 2007 Special Issue Dec. 1, 2007 Note [*]. This optional proposal should be no more than one page, which covers a brief description of your proposed topic. It will only provide an opportunity for interacting with the editors before the full paper submission. Authors of accepted proposals will also have until 16th March 2007 to submit their full paper.
Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the format requirements of the International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organizations. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting manuscripts are available on http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31. To submit a paper, please email to [log in to unmask] The email subject should be IJMLO Special Issue Submission. You will normally receive an acknowledgement within a few days. Please provide email addresses for all authors.
For more details, please visit: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~hryu/CFP.htm
About the guest editors
Hokyoung Ryu is a lecturer in Information System at Massey University (New Zealand). His research has broadly focussed on theoretical foundations of Human-Computer Interaction, M-learning methodologies and approaches. Email: [log in to unmask]
David Parsons is a senior lecturer in Information Systems at Massey University (New Zealand). His research is centred on mobile technologies for application development. His experience in both academic teaching and commercial training has led to a particular interest in mobile learning, and the establishment of the 'mclassroom' project, with a particular focus on professional mobile learning. Email: [log in to unmask]
Tony Norris is a professor in Information Systems at Massey University (New Zealand). He has a national and international reputation in health informatics, the application of information systems and information management to healthcare planning and delivery. His research is now centred on mobile technologies for health informatics. Email: [log in to unmask]
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