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Students use of mobile phones for studying and note making

This project has explored how students are using their mobile phones for studying and note making.

The first stage was a questionnaire which looked at the mobile phones that students have, their attitudes to using them for teaching and learning, and what they were using them for. This was followed up by case studies of individual use. Students were loaned Flip video cameras to record video diaries of their mobile phone use, and were interviewed afterwards, resulting in several case studies of use.

It was funded by London Met's SWAP fund (Supporting Writing for Assessment Purposes), supported by the WriteNow and Learnhigher CETLs and the Centre for Academic Professional Development, with a grant of £2,000. The project was being carried out by Claire Bradley (LTRI) and Dr Debbie Holley (London Metropolitan Business School).

All the results, from the questionnaire, the case studies and tips and suggestions for using mobile phones for teaching and learning, are available on the project website: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/learningonthemove/index.html

The home page of the project website

Project publications

Bradley, C., and Holley, D. (2010). How students in Higher Education use their mobile phones for learning. In Montebello, M., Camilleri, V., Dingli, A. (Eds)., Proceedings of mLearn Conference, pp 232-239. Held October 20-22, Malta. See paper [PDF file] See slides: http://slidesha.re/aV7xov

Bradley, C., Holley, D. (2010). An analysis of first-year business students’ mobile phones and their use for learning. In Creanor, L., Hawkridge, D., Ng, K., Rennie, F. (Eds). “Into something rich and strange” – making sense of the sea-change, pp 89-98. The 17th Association for Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C 2010). Held 7–9 September 2010, University of Nottingham, England, UK.
Available from: http://repository.alt.ac.uk/797
This paper won the award for the 'Best paper' at the conference.
See slides: http://slidesha.re/ap0SL8

Contact details

Claire Bradley
Learning Technology Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
35 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8AA
Email:  c.bradley@londonmet.ac.uk
Tel :  +44 (0)207 133 4341
Fax:  +44 (0)207 133 4348
WWW: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/ltri

Last updated 25 November, 2011