mLearn 2016 - 15th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning

MLearn is the leading international conference on mobile and contextual learning and attracts participants from more than 60 countries annually to the conference. mLearn 2016 provides a forum for researchers, policy makers, professionals and educators from higher education, school education and vocational education, government departments, industries and international organisations as well as IT developers and solutions providers to share knowledge, research and practices and debate critical issues pertaining to sustainable futures for mobile learning. The conference theme for mLearn 2016 is Mobile learning futures: Sustaining quality research and practice in mobile learning.
Mobile learning futures: Sustaining quality research and practice in mobile learning
Sustainability and quality in research and practice are the keys to mobile learning. Future mobile learning research needs to look beyond the nature of technological intervention and consider a more ecological approach which considers the conditions under which mobile technology contributes to learning. The conditions that are necessary for sustainability of mobile learning could be broadly categorised as economic (financial considerations), political (leadership, equity and policy), social (community engagement), technical (infrastructure, security, devices, applications) and pedagogical (teaching and learning). Issues to consider include teachers’ technological and pedagogic expertise when evaluating the effects of technology on learning, goals of instruction, subject matter, students’ attributes, background and age levels, mobile digital literacy, authentic assessments that provide evidence of learning, leadership, the physical environment supporting mobile learning, resources, professional development, collegiality and commitment to mobile learning implementation that includes policy.
Topics of interest embracing sustainable research and practice include (but not limited to):
Theories of sustainable mobile learning
Challenges in sustaining mobile learning
Research methods that capture evidence of sustainable mobile learning impact
Ecological research into sustainable mobile learning
Sustainable practice over a period of years in mobile-enabled learning
Large-scale deployment of mobile learning
BYOD implementation, challenges and sustainability
Mobile learning in emerging economies and challenges for sustainability in the Asian century
Mobile learning to serve the under-served in developing countries
Open and distance learning with mobile technologies
Policy supporting sustainable mobile learning
Research into mobile-enabled education for Indigenous people
Bridging the nexus between formal, non-formal and informal mobile learning
Flipped classroom education supported by mobile technologies
Games, augmented reality and/or simulations in mobile learning
Learning analytics and mobile learning
Trends in learning with smart devices
Emerging hardware and applications that support sustainable mobile learning
Best practices in discipline focused learning with mobile technologies ? science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, health education, language education, arts and humanities education ? economics, geography, history, social sciences, etc