Description

The International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL) provides a forum for researchers in this field to share their knowledge and experience of combining e-learning and m-learning with other educational resources. Providing researchers, practitioners, and academicians with insight into a wide range of topics such as knowledge sharing, mobile games for learning, collaborative learning, and e-learning, this journal contains useful articles for those seeking to learn, analyze, improve, and apply technologies in mobile and blended learning. The journal spans theoretical, technical, and pedagogical issues in mobile and blended learning. These embrace comprehensive or critical reviews of the current literature, relevant technologies and applications, and important contextual issues such as privacy, security, adaptivity, and resource constraints.

Topics Covered

• Comprehensive or critical reviews of the current literature
• Evaluation of mobile or blended learning in practice
• Future of mobile or blended learning
• Knowledge Sharing
• Learner interaction/collaborative learning
• Mobile games for learning
• Mobile or blended learning applications
• Mobile or blended learning applied at different levels of education from pre-school to tertiary and beyond
• Pedagogical and/or philosophical underpinnings of mobile or blended learning
• Privacy and security issues
• Related research in learning, including e-learning and pedagogical approaches
• Resource constraints in the delivery of mobile or blended learning
• Reviews of the application of mobile or blended learning in multiple contexts
• Role of Wikis, blogs, podcasts, messaging, other online tools, and Web 2.0 components in learning delivery
• Roles of mobile, pervasive, and immersive technologies in education
• Technologies that directly or indirectly support mobile or blended learning systems (devices, networks, tools etc.)
• Theoretical approaches to mobile or blended learning solutions
• Use of mobile or blended learning in professional environments

Mission

The primary mission of the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL) is to provide comprehensive coverage and understanding of the role of innovative learning theory and practice in an increasingly mobile and pervasive technological environment. As technology enables a more seamless experience of device supported learning worlds that may integrate mobile, embedded, augmented, and immersive technologies, we may expect to see increasing interest and activity in blended approaches to learning. IJMBL brings together researchers at the forefront of this field, in both technology and pedagogical practice and assists them in the development and dissemination of new approaches to both mobile and blended learning.