Open AccessStudents and mobile devices
Author(s) -
John Traxler
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
research in learning technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2156-7077
pISSN - 2156-7069
DOI - 10.3402/rlt.v18i2.10759
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , equity (law) , nightmare , control (management) , dream , public relations , pace , consistency (knowledge bases) , mobile device , higher education , sociology , internet privacy , business , computer science , political science , psychology , management , economics , law , world wide web , social science , geodesy , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , psychotherapist , geography
Many educators advocate, promote and encourage the dreams of agency, control, ownership and choice amongst students whilst educational institutions take the responsibility for provision, equity, access, participation and standards. The institutions traditionally procure, provide and control the technology for learning but now students are acquiring their own personal technologies for learning and institutions are challenged to keep pace. These allow students to produce, store, transmit and consume information, images and ideas; this potentially realises the educators' dream but for institutions is potentially a nightmare, one of loss of control and loss of the quality, consistency, uniformity and stability that delivered the dreams of equity, access and participation. This paper traces the conflicting dreams and responsibilities