Mobile Education: Personalised Learning and Assessment in Remote Education: A Guide for Educators and Learners

ISBN-13: 9781789979459 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 166 str.

Kieran McCartney

Opis

How can we best use mobile technology to promote learning? How can we personalise our assessment of learning remotely? This book explores these questions and more, considering strategies for using mobile devices for more personalised teaching

Spis treści

Contents: Purpose of the book - How to use this book - How do the differences between students' and lecturers' use of MT impact upon teaching, learning and assessment? - ML and the changing behaviours of learners and educators - To what extent is MT and its use integrated into a curriculum? - How does the level of competency with MT differ between and within the learners' and educators' populations? - How are the choices that students make in relation to learning and assessment influenced by using mobile devices or a PC? - Learning and assessment as separate processes - How do the learning and assessment choices made by those who use MT and a PC differ? - To what extent do learners' behaviours reflect that of their individual learning and assessment preferences? - Learners' experiences when using MT as a strategy to facilitate learning and assessment - How does the experience of learning and assessment differ between MT and PC users? - What barriers and enablers exist for students when using mobile devices for learning and assessment? - What limitations and opportunities exist for assessment in relation to MT? - What can educators and learners do to introduce Personalized education with the use of MT at home? - The differences between educators' and learners' use of MT impact upon teaching, learning and assessment - Choices that students make in relation to learning and assessment can be influenced by using mobile devices or a PC - Using MT as a strategy to facilitate learning and assessment results in different learning and assessment experiences.

O autorze

Kieran McCartney is a Staff Tutor at The Open University in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education, Language Studies (WELS) in the School of Education, Childhood, Youth & Sports (ECYS). He also teaches in STEM and at postgraduate level in the area of learning and teaching. Before entering the teaching profession as a lecturer in further and higher education, he profited from a multi-disciplinary career across a variety of management positions in different industries in the private, public and voluntary sectors. He found the skills he used as part of talent management in his various roles were as applicable to education as they had been in industry. Working as a lecturer in further and higher education, he has developed and delivered blended learning in addition to online and distance modules at degree level.