Abstract
Advancements in mobile technologies hold promise for supporting teaching and learning in formal and informal educational settings. Although many primary and secondary schools have yet to fully utilize mobile devices to support teaching and learning, increasingly P-12 schools (pre-kindergarten through 12th grade) have partnered with higher education institutions to design and develop mobile learning applications and to seek external funding to support such initiatives. As higher education partners collaborate with primary and secondary educators to realize the promise of mobile learning, they should be mindful to ensure that mobile learning initiatives address historical barriers to successful P-12 technology implementation. Drawing on literature concerning educational technology design and implementation, this chapter offers a framework that higher education and P-12 partners can use to form design teams, conduct needs assessments, develop and test applications, and support leadership for addressing first- and second-order barriers to implementing sustainable mobile learning initiatives.
References
Anderson, R.E., and S.L. Dexter. 2005. Technology leadership: An empirical investigation of prevalence and effect. Educational Administration Quarterly 41(1): 49–82.
Anthony, A.B.. 2012. Activity theory as a framework for investigating district-classroom system interactions and their influences on technology integration. Journal of Research on Technology in Education 44(4): 331–352.
Anthony, A.B.., and S. Patravanich. 2014. The technology principal: To be or not to be? Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership 17(2): 3–19.
Baran, E. 2014. A review of research on mobile learning in teacher education. Educational Technology & Society 17(4): 17–32.
Bebell, D., and L. O'Dwyer. 2010. Educational outcomes and research from 1:1 computing settings. Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment 9(1). Retrieved from http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/jtla/article/view/1606.
Cobb, P., J. Confrey, A. di Sessa, R. Lehrer, and L. Schauble. 2003. Design experiments in educational research. Educational Researcher 32(1): 9–13.
Cohen, D.K. 1987. Educational technology, policy, and practice. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 9(2): 153–170.
Cristol, D.S., and B.G. Gimbert. (2014). Academic achievement in BYOD classrooms. In mLearn 2013: Proceedings of the 12th world conference on mobile and contextual learning. Retrieved from http://www.qscience.com/toc/qproc/2013/3
Cuban, L. 1986. Teachers and machines: The classroom use of technology since 1920. New York: Teachers College Press.
Cuban, L., H. Kirkpatrick, and C. Peck. 2001. High access and low use of technologies in high school classrooms: Explaining an apparent paradox. American Educational Research Journal 38(4): 813–834.
Davidson, J. 2003. A new role in facilitating school reform: The case of the educational technologist. Teachers College Record 105(5): 729–252.
Devolder, A., R. Vanderlinde, J. van Braak, and J. Tondeur. 2010. Identifying multiple roles of ICT coordinators. Computers & Education 55: 1651–1655.
Dexter, S. 2008. Leadership for IT in schools. In International handbook of information technology in primary and secondary education, ed. J. Voogt and G. Knezek, 543–554. New York: Springer.
Druin, A. 2002. The role of children in the design of new technology. Behaviour and Information Technology 21(1): 1–25.
Eastmond, N. 1994. Assessing needs, developing instruction, and evaluating results in distance education. In Distance education: Strategies and tools, ed. B.D. Willis, 87–108. Englewood Cliffs: Educational Technology.
Eisele-Dyrli, K. (2009). Mobile devices at a glance. District Administration 45(11). Retrieved from http://www.districtadministration.com/toc/default.aspx?issuedate=11/1/2009
Ertmer, P.A. 1999. Addressing first- and second-order barriers to change: Strategies for technology integration. Educational Technology Research and Development 47(4): 47–61.
Fishman, B., R.W. Marx, P. Blumenfeld, J. Krajcik, and E. Soloway. 2004. Creating a framework for research on systemic technology innovations. The Journal of the Learning Sciences 13(1): 43–76.
Five-Start Technology Solutions. 2014. Pivot with 5D+. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership. Retrieved from https://http://www.k-12leadership.org/pivot-with-5d.
Frank, K.A., Y. Zhao, and K. Borman. 2004. Social capital and the diffusion of innovations within organizations: Application to the implementation of computer technology in schools. Sociology of Education 77(2): 148–171.
Howard, R., and L. Schneider. 1984. Worker participation in technological change: Interests, influence, and scope. In Critical studies in organization and bureaucracy, ed. F. Fischer and C. Sirianni, 519–543. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
Hoy, W.K., and C.J. Tarter. 2007. Administrators solving the problems of practice, 3rd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
International Telecommunication Union. 2014. The world in 2014: ICT facts and figures. Retrieved from http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/facts/default.aspx
Johnson, L., S. Adams Becker, M. Cummins, V. Estrada, A. Freeman, and H. Ludgate. 2013. NMC horizon report: 2013 K-12 edition. Austin: The New Media Consortium. Retrieved from http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2013-horizon-report-k12.pdf
Kamarainen, A.M., S. Metcalf, T. Grotzer, A. Browne, D. Mazzuca, M.S. Tutwiler, and C. Dede. 2013. EcoMOBILE: Integrating augmented reality and probeware with environmental education field trips. Computers & Education 68: 545–556.
Kirkpatrick, H., and L. Cuban. 1998. Computers make kids smarter – Right? Technos 7(2): 26–31.
Liaw, S.-S., M. Hatala, and H.-M. Huang. 2010. Investigating acceptance toward mobile learning to assist individual knowledge management: Based on activity theory approach. Computers & Education 54(2): 446–454.
Manzo, K.K. 2010. Mobile learning seen to lack rigorous research. Technology Counts 2010: Powering Up: Mobile Learning Seeks the Spotlight in K-12 Education 29(26). Retrieved from http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/03/18/26research.h29.html
Mishra, P., and M.J. Koehler. 2006. Technological pedagogical content knowledge: A framework for integrating technology in teacher knowledge. Teachers College Record 108(6): 1017–1054.
Morrison, G.R., S.M. Ross, and J.E. Kemp. 2007. Designing Effective Instruction, 5th ed. Hoboken: Wiley.
Motiwalla, L.F. 2007. Mobile learning: A framework and evaluation. Computers & Education 49: 581–596.
Moursund, D. 1992. The technology coordinator. Eugene: International Society for Technology in Education.
Ng, W., and H. Nicholas. 2013. A framework for sustainable mobile learning in schools. British Journal of Educational Technology 44(5): 695–715.
NPD Group. 2008. Consumer electronics devices like portable digital music players and mobile phones play increasingly important roles in children’s lives. Retrieved from http://www.npd.com/press/releases/press_080625.html
Power, R., D.S. Cristol, and B.G. Gimbert. 2014. Exploring tools to promote teacher efficacy with mLearning. In Mobile as a mainstream – towards future challenges in mobile learning: 13th world conference on mobile and contextual learning (mLearn 2014), vol. 479, 61–68. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-13416-1
Riel, M., and H.J. Becker. 2008. Characteristics of teacher leaders for information and communication technology. In International handbook of information technology in primary and secondary education, ed. J. Voogt and G. Knezek, 397–417. New York: Springer.
Ross, J.W., and P. Wiell. 2002. Six IT decisions your IT people shouldn’t make. Harvard Business Review 80(11): 84–91.
Schachter, R. 2009. Mobile devices in the classroom. District Administration 45(11). Retrieved from http://www.districtadministration.com/toc/default.aspx?issuedate=11/1/2009.
Shuler, C. 2009. Pockets of potential: Using mobile technologies to promote children’s learning. New York: The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop.
The GeoHistorian Project. 2010. Research Center for Educational Technology at Kent State University. Retrieved from http://www.rcet.org/geohistorian/
Traxler, J. 2007. Defining, discussing and evaluating mobile learning: The moving finger writes and having writ.... The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 8(2). Retrieved from http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/346/875
Traxler, J. 2010. Sustaining mobile learning and its institutions. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning 2(4): 58–65.
U.S. Department of Education. 2010. Transforming American education: Learning powered by technology: National Educational Technology Plan 2010. Washington, DC: Office of Educational Technology.
van't Hooft, M., and P. Vahey. 2007. Handheld computers in education: An industry perspective. Educational Technology 43(7): 40–43.
von Hippel, E. 2005. Democratizing innovation. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Vroom, V.H., and A.G. Jago. 1998. The new leadership: Managing participation in organizations. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
Vroom, V.H., and P.W. Yetton. 1973. Leadership and decision making. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Wu, W.-H., Y.-C.J. Wu, C.-Y. Chen, H.-Y. Kao, C.-H. Lin, and S.-H. Huang. 2012. Review of trends from mobile learning studies: A meta-analysis. Computers & Education 59(2): 817–827.
York-Barr, J., and K. Duke. 2004. What do we know about teacher leadership? Findings from two decades of scholarship. Review of Educational Research 74(3): 255–316.
Yuen, A.H.K., N. Law, and K.C. Wong. 2003. ICT implementation and school leadership. Journal of Educational Administration 41(2): 158–170.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2015 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (outside the USA)
About this entry
Cite this entry
Anthony, A.B., Gimbert, B. (2015). Higher Education Partnerships for Learning with Mobile Technologies in P-12 Environments. In: Zhang, Y. (eds) Handbook of Mobile Teaching and Learning. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41981-2_34-1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41981-2_34-1
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-41981-2
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Social SciencesReference Module Humanities and Social SciencesReference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences