New Trends on Mobile Learning in The Light of Recent Studies

Year 2015, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 1 - 10, 30.04.2015

Özgen Korkmaz

https://doi.org/10.17275/per.14.16.2.1

Cited By: 6

Abstract

Since the beginning of the century, with the introduction of mobile
devices, use of the concept of mobile learning, became frequent,
along with e-learning, m-learning, concept began to come on the
agenda. It can be said that determining in what proportion and in
which axis m-learning concept discussed in the literature would be
important for revealing the issues that are not discussed enough.
Starting from this basic premise, the purpose of this research is
examining the researches in the literature within the last three
years, and identifying new approaches. Literature review was
limited with ScienceDirect (one of international databases) and
Ulakbim (a database from Turkey). In the scope of the research, 45
studies, 37 from Science Direct, 8 from Ulakbim Social Sciences
Database were selected. In the study, each article was investigated
with document analysis method. Articles were classified and
examined. According to five different criteria the results obtained
by this research are summarized as follows: Selected works from
Turkey are mostly descriptive studies which try to determine
students or faculty members’ views. In almost all of these studies
the opinions of the students were determined but the information
about their past mobile learning experiences is not included in the
researches. The studies selected from ScienceDirect have highly
diversed subjects, they based on from different disciplines,
different learning approaches and mostly try to find out the
effectiveness of a developed original environment. In addition, in
different subject areas in mobile learning, issues like students'
academic achievements, attitudes and perceptions of influence,
teacher/teaching staff attitudes or perceptions, adaptable mobile
environments, cooperative mobile environments, mobile
environments self-regulated learning, mobile environments of
information presented in different ways the effects of game-based
mobile learning, note-taking with mobile tools, mobile applications
in formal education, and mobile augmented reality environments
become prominent.

Keywords

Mobile Learning, Distance Education, Web based learning

Thanks

This paper has been presented as oral presentatin on 2th International Instructional Technologies & Teacher Education Symposium 2014

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