ELI Podcast: Mobile Computing and Learning

This forty-three minute podcast features a session presented by Geri Gay, Professor and Communication/Director, HCI Group, Cornell University. The speech, "Mobile Computing and Learning," was recorded at the ELI 2009 Annual Conference. A video stream of this speech is also available.

Mobile and ubiquitous computing may support a social constructivist learning process by helping students engage in learning activities in diverse locations, access resources at the point of learning, and communicate with distant collaborators anywhere, anytime. This session describes the transformation of learning-related activities brought about by the introduction of ubiquitous and mobile technologies in learning environments and the relationship among applications (for example, social tagging, social networking, and context-aware computing). It also describes how these technologies affect the physical setting as well as the forms of social participation within those settings.