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Teachers Matter: Challenges of Using a Location-Based Mobile Learning Platform

Authors : Christian Sailer, Joram Schito, Peter Kiefer, Martin Raubal

Published in: The Mobile Learning Voyage - From Small Ripples to Massive Open Waters

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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This paper presents the design of a learning management system for location-based mobile learning and reports on first experiences of ongoing user studies with a location-based mobile learning platform. This platform allows teachers to create location-based mobile learning units as editors that can be consumed by students using mobile devices with self-localization capabilities, such as the Global Positioning System or network positioning. We show hands-on challenges of location-based mobile learning and emphasize the role of teachers as learning unit designers. We determine five aspects relevant for the challenges of location-based mobile learning: environment, technology, teaching, learner, and teacher’s spatial cognitive competences. For every aspect, predictable and non-predictable challenges may exist. We describe these five aspects and focus on the challenges encountered to enhance professionalism in the didactic use of location-based mobile learning based on related work, diaries, and interviews of initial studies with our learning platform. In this respect, our experiences with the ongoing project support the importance of teachers for the success of location-based mobile learning concepts.

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Title: Teachers Matter: Challenges of Using a Location-Based Mobile Learning Platform
Authors: Christian Sailer
Joram Schito
Peter Kiefer
Martin Raubal
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: The Mobile Learning Voyage - From Small Ripples to Massive Open Waters
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-25683-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-25684-9

Copyright Year: 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25684-9_18

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