XinBai
Department of Educational Technology
York College - The City University of New York
New York, USA
xbai@york.cuny.edu
Abstract-Mobile learning development is, most of the time,
the privilege of practitioners with support from a technical
team. The deep learning curve involved understanding the
native mobile operating systems and developing mobile
applications keeps most of the non-technical teachers and
researchers away. We explore what innovation mobile
technologies and Web 2.0 can bring that allows teachers to
author their own mobile learning environment and how best
we can leverage the emerging technologies to better prepare
students for the digital world. We hope our study will help
build teachers' confidence and skills through learning the
affordance of mobile Web 2.0 technologies in the process of
developing mobile learning environments for their courses. In
this paper we will describe our design-based research in our
efforts to 1) develop a generic mobile learning based platform
for all (MEPA) that allows easy access to device's core
functions as well as web-based learning contents and social
tools; 2) encourage instructors without a programming
background to implement these functions for teaching and
learning; 3) document lessons learned to inform future
research.
Keywords-component; ubiquitous learning, mobile learning,
elearning, cloud computing, emerging technology