For too long, mobile learning has intimidated instructors who consider it something reserved for the most tech-savvy and tech-adventurous. Mobile-mindful learning is much more about pedagogy and instructional design than being a tech-savvy app developer. Instead, mobile-mindful teaching is about creating fluid learning opportunities and rich learning ecologies. By taking feasible steps on considering mobile learning in teaching choices, any instructor can be mobile-mindful in a way that vastly increases student access to learning. Preview the book introduction.
“This book is AMAZING! Not only will faculty members be able to teach students using their smartphones, information in this book can be used to teach students how to be better learners in any situation by using their smartphones in a mindful way.”
Todd D. Zakrajsek, Ph.D., Director, International Teaching Learning Cooperative, author of The New Science of Learning
“Guided by reflection and bursting with practical applications, coupled with an emphasis on social learning and accessibility, Moore provides a step-by-step guide to implement a thoughtful, flexible, mobile-mindful pedagogy and thereby has created an indispensable tool for twenty-first century educators!”
Lillian Nave, Senior Lecturer at Appalachian State University and Host of the Think UDL podcast
Now Is the Time to Embrace Mobile Learning
This EDUCAUSE piece is the seed for Mobile-Mindful Teaching and Learning. It proposes how the COVID-19 pandemic should pique our curiosity about the potential of more mobile-friendly learning options. It’s not just about access to materials, but more opportunities for distributed learning, recall, and place-based engagement.
Resources from the Book
These resources are linked in the Mobile-Mindful Teaching and Learning book.
Activity: Assess Your Phone Behavior: To be mobile-mindful, we have to pay attention to how we use our phones and reflect on whether these behaviors are intentional and beneficial. This simple checklist touches on behaviors and learning moves that are discussed throughout the book.
Guide: A Mobile-Mindful Syllabus: Once you have evaluated your course for fluid learning opportunities and implemented mobile-mindful options, it will go a long way to make these options explicit and provide recommendations and resources on how to use mobile-mindful options well. This guide explains five areas of the syllabus that could describe mobile learning options: format, recommended apps, course texts, tech support, tech policy.
Activity: Fluid Learning Analysis: Use this sheet to evaluate your current learning materials for fluid learning, or a learner’s ability to access learning across and switch between different modes and devices (Fang, 2014).
Activity: Assess Our Digital Accessibility Practices: To be mobile-mindful, we have to pay attention to how we use our phones and reflect on whether these behaviors are intentional and beneficial. This simple checklist touches on behaviors and learning moves that are discussed throughout the book.
Collection: Curated Teaching and Learning Materials: This collection is an example of curating learning across multiple devices. Browse the dozens of teaching and learning topics, each of which will lead to a Google Doc organizing articles, books, podcasts, activities, videos, events, and people to follow related to that topic.