3 - A mobile Web 2.0 framework: reconceptualising teaching and learning

Abstract

This chapter presents a mobile Web 2.0 framework for pedagogical change based upon the implementation of over 30 mobile learning (m-learning) projects between 2006 and 2011. These projects explored the potential of m-learning as a catalyst for pedagogical change within architecture, product design, landscape architecture, contemporary music, computing, graphics design, performing and screen arts, accountancy law and finance, civil engineering, and journalism. The projects utilised mobile devices for student-generated content and for enabling student-generated learning contexts, bridging situated experiences with the formal classroom. Examples of the development and implementation of the framework are drawn from the context of the bachelor of product design programme at Unitec, New Zealand. The framework is founded upon contemporary social learning theory and illustrates the potential of mobile Web 2.0 tools to bridge pedagogically designed learning contexts between formal and informal learning and across international boundaries.