Open AccessA mobile ecology of resources for Covid-19 learning
Author(s) -
Vickel Narayan,
Thomas Cochrane,
Neil Cowie,
Meredith Hinze,
James R. Birt,
Christopher Charles Deneen,
Paul Goldacre,
Lisa Ransom,
David Sinfield,
Tom Worthington
Publication year - 2020
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.14742/ascilite2020.0122
Subject(s) - affordance , process (computing) , computer science , covid-19 , human–computer interaction , ecology , multimedia , medicine , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology , operating system
Mobile devices and a vast array of accompanying applications offer significant affordances to create, consume, share, collaborate and communicate—affordances that could be easily leveraged to facilitate meaningful learning. A positive disruption arising from COVID-19 that aligns with the affordances of mobile learning is the uncoupling of time and space in the learning process. Traditionally formal learning is a process that is predominately viewed as an experience that is ‘timetabled’— scheduled to eventuate at a ‘place’—lecture or a tutorial (or similar) in a room or lecture theatre. In this concise paper, an ecology of resources is discussed along with guiding principles for designing and facilitating uncoupled authentic and student-determined learning post the emergency remote teaching phase.