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Mobile Web 2.0 Integration

Mobile Web 2.0 Integration

Thomas Cochrane, Isaac Flitta
Copyright: © 2013 |Volume: 4 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 18
ISSN: 1947-9158|EISSN: 1947-9166|EISBN13: 9781466634107|DOI: 10.4018/jhcr.2013070101
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Cochrane, Thomas, and Isaac Flitta. "Mobile Web 2.0 Integration." IJHCR vol.4, no.3 2013: pp.1-18. http://doi.org/10.4018/jhcr.2013070101

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Cochrane, T. & Flitta, I. (2013). Mobile Web 2.0 Integration. International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR), 4(3), 1-18. http://doi.org/10.4018/jhcr.2013070101

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Cochrane, Thomas, and Isaac Flitta. "Mobile Web 2.0 Integration," International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR) 4, no.3: 1-18. http://doi.org/10.4018/jhcr.2013070101

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Abstract

Web 2.0 tools provide a wide variety of collaboration and communication tools that can be appropriated within education to facilitate student-generated learning contexts and sharing student-generated content as key elements of social constructivist learning environments or Pedagogy 2.0. “Social software allows students to participate in distributed research communities that extend spatially beyond their classroom and school, temporally beyond a particular class session or term, and technologically beyond the tools and resources that the school makes available to the students.” (Mejias, 2006, p1). This paper illustrates this by describing and evaluating the impact of the introduction of web 2.0 and mlearning to facilitate student eportfolios within the context of a first year Bachelor of Design and Visual Arts course in New Zealand (Unitec). Core web 2.0 (social software) tools used in establishing students’ web 2.0 eportfolios included: Vox, Qik, Picasaweb, Prezi, Google Docs, and YouTube. The participating lecturers and the technology steward also used these web 2.0 tools to collaborate on the design of the project. The paper reflects upon the impact of the participants’ previous web 2.0 experience and the use of these tools to facilitate student-generated content and at the same time to act as catalysts for pedagogical change. The project is evaluated as an action research cycle within a framework of longitudinal action research investigating the impact of mobile web 2.0 on higher education from 2006 to the present.

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