The LTRI conducts research into the application of mobile devices to augment, support and transform learning

1. Mobile Developments
The LTRI conducts research into the
application of mobile devices to augment,
support and transform learning
John Cook, Carl Smith, Claire Bradley and
Debbie Holley
Learning Technology Research Institute

2. Jargon Buster
• MOBILE LEARNING. “Mobile learning … is not about
delivering content to mobile devices but, instead, about
the processes of coming to know and being able to
operate successfully in, and across, new and ever
changing contexts and learning spaces.” (Pachler,
Bachmair and Cook, 2010, p. 6)
• LOCATION BASED LEARNING. “Location-based
learning takes advantage of the ability of mobile
devices to know where they are located and deliver
information that is time-and-place-relevant.” (Horizon,
2009)

3. Jargon Buster
• VISUALISATIONS. Formats can include images,
maps, 2-D or 3-D animation, 3D models, timelines and
Augmented Reality (AR) environments.
• AUGMENTED REALITY (AR). “Technology that
extends the picture of the world you can see through
your phone.” (Guardian, 2010).

12. Augmented Reality
Example: Street Museum:
Augmented Reality on the
streets of London

13. Visualisations
Allow people to study objects that are
too fragile to be physically handled, to
reconstruct past events and
landscapes, or to see behind the
scene ‘on location’

16. “The ability to be in a particular position but get a
variety of views/different visual perspective was a
very useful opportunity. The whole thing also got
everyone talking in a way I hadn't experienced on
field trips to Fountains before.”

19. “The information given was underlined by the
'experience' of the area and therefore given context
in both past and present.”

20. “it was triggering my own thoughts and I was
getting to think for myself about the area and
the buildings.”

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