The research presented here will share the insights and results that have developed from a doctoral study in progress, which examines individual and group study habits & learning practices. The results of this study provide foresight into emergent practices regarding formal and informal study/learning contexts. Furthermore, this research demonstrates that the future of learning is already here, it is increasingly becoming more oriented towards mobile-learning scenarios and that the mobile technologies, services and practices associated with shaping how we learn now and in the future are currently only practiced by a few, but will impact many in the near future.

1. Deciphering the
Future of Learning
Through Daily Observation
Mark A.M. Kramer

3. Daily Observation
Individual &
Group Learning

4. Observing
Existing
Practices

5. Observing
Existing
Practices

6. Existing
Technologies

7. Existing Habits

8. Existing Cultures

9. Emerging Cultures

10. Together “?”
Alone “?”

12. Discovering
Emergent
Practices

13. Discovering
Emerging Practices

14. Encouraging Emergent Behavior

15. ures
Cult
rging
Eme

16. multi-modal
Learning Spaces

17. multi-modal
Learning Spaces

18. physical
Learning Spaces

19. physical
Learning Spaces

20. Research Reflections:

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22. Practical Observations

23. Practical Observations
• It is the learner that is mobile, rather than the technology

24. Practical Observations
• It is the learner that is mobile, rather than the technology
• Learning is interwoven with other activities as part of everyday
life

25. Practical Observations
• It is the learner that is mobile, rather than the technology
• Learning is interwoven with other activities as part of everyday
life
• The control and management of learning can be distributed

26. Practical Observations
• It is the learner that is mobile, rather than the technology
• Learning is interwoven with other activities as part of everyday
life
• The control and management of learning can be distributed
• Context is constructed by learners through interaction

27. Practical Observations
• It is the learner that is mobile, rather than the technology
• Learning is interwoven with other activities as part of everyday
life
• The control and management of learning can be distributed
• Context is constructed by learners through interaction
• Mobile learning can complement and conflict with formal
education

28. Practical Observations
• It is the learner that is mobile, rather than the technology
• Learning is interwoven with other activities as part of everyday
life
• The control and management of learning can be distributed
• Context is constructed by learners through interaction
• Mobile learning can complement and conflict with formal
education
• Mobile learning raises deep ethical issues of privacy and
ownership

29. Theoretical Considerations
 Activity Theory
 Situated cognition
 Informal Learning Theory
 Dewey’s philosophy of Pragmatic Technology
 Pask’s Conversation Theory
 Luhmann´s - Pedagogical Theory
 Vygotsky´s Theory of cognition and learning

30. Theoretical Considerations
Convergence between learning and technology
New Learning New Technology
Personalized • Personal
Learner centered • User centered
Situated • Mobile
Collaborative • Networked
Ubiquitous • Ubiquitous
Lifelong • Durable

31. Further Reflections:

34. personal learning

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