Engaging students in higher education through mobile learning: lessons learnt in a Chinese entrepreneurship course

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• 作者：Thomas Menkhoff (1) thomasm@smu.edu.sg
  Magnus Lars Bengtsson (2) magnuslb@smu.edu.sg
• 关键词：Mobile learning – ; Teaching – ; Social media – ; Web 2.0 – ; Higher education – ; Singapore
• 刊名：Educational Research for Policy and Practice
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：October 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：11
• 期：3
• 页码：225-242
• 全文大小：653.6 KB
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• 作者单位：1. Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, 50 Stamford Road #05-01, Singapore, 178899 Singapore2. Integrated Information Technology Services, Singapore Management University, 70 Stamford Road #05-22, Singapore, 178901 Singapore
• ISSN：1573-1723

文摘

This evaluative–exploratory case study reports pedagogical experiences with using mobiles phones, wikis, and other mobile learning approaches such as podcasts and walking tours as educational tools in the context of an undergraduate course on Chinese Entrepreneurship and Asian Business Networks taught at a university in Singapore. Conceptualized as mobile learning, the paper argues that information and communication technologies (ICT) devices used by Gen Y students as part of their everyday life such as hand phones in combination with social media platforms such as course wikis and other proven pedagogical methods such as mini lectures, field visits, and walking tours can greatly enrich learners’ experience and produce valuable learning outcomes on the basis of blended learning provided their usage is easy and effectively integrated into the respective instructional strategy.