Evaluating apps and technologies for learning

A range of mobile apps exist to support teachers and students across disciplines, including in science education. Using the ipac framework and approaches from computer science a number of analyses have been conducted of such apps and their educational aspects including supported pedagogies. These studies have investigated the app descriptions, as well as user reviews.

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Mobile Pedagogies

The iPAC Framework highlights three approaches that are distinctive to mobile learning: Personalisation, Authenticity and Collaboration (or ‘PAC’). How learners experience these signature mobile pedagogies is influenced by how they exploit a more flexible ‘time-space’ (or context) when learning with mobile devices.

Matthew Kearney, Sandra Schuck, Kevin Burden, Paul Burke, Peter Aubusson

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