Mobile Learning Technologies and the Move towards ‘User-Led Education’
(2007) Mobile Learning Technologies and the Move towards ‘User-Led Education’. In Proceedings Mobile Media, Sydney.
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Abstract
Recent advances in media technologies are deeply intertwined with an overall shift towards more user-led content production models in a large variety of fields – some observers describe this as the move towards a ‘Generation C’ of active and intercreative users, or towards a hybrid user/producer or ‘produser’, replacing traditional production/consumption models. The increasing adoption of such user-led, community-based, collaborative models for the co-creation of ‘content’ requires current and future graduates to display skills and capabilities which are significantly different from what has been expected of students in the past, and therefore needs teaching approaches which not only describe these literacies, but live them – modes of teaching which are themselves user- (or student-) led, collaborative, and flexible, and address the needs of Generation C. This paper provides a strong argument for this shift in pedagogical paradigms. It examines current needs in industry and society to argue for this shift, provides some pointers to possible solutions, and considers the role mobile and wireless technologies can play in this project.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Status: | Unpublished |
| Keywords: | mobile; wireless; m-learning; e-learning; Web 2.0; Generation C; produser; produsage; literacies; graduate capabilities; knowledge economy |
| Subjects: | 400000 Journalism, Librarianship and Curatorial Studies > 400100 Journalism, Communication and Media > 400104 Communication and Media Studies 330000 Education > 330100 Education Studies |
| ID Code: | 6625 |
| Deposited By: | Bruns, Axel |
| Deposited On: | 15 March 2007 |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2007 (please consult author) |