6 March 2010 (Saturday) | 12:10 - 12:30 | http://citers2010.cite.hku.hk/abstract/54 | SONG, Yanjie, Faculty of Education, HKU

1. CITERS Symposium 5 March 2010 Investigating Undergraduate Student Mobile Device Use in Context Song Yanjie Faculty of Education The University of Hong Kong Email: songyj@hku.hk

2. Overview Background Issues This Study Results and Discussions Conclusions

3. Background 2000s The developmental stages of educational technology (Peng et al. 2009)

4. Technological Collaborative Scaffolding Nussbaum et al. (2009)

5. Wang et al. (2009)

6. The system architecture of the proposed personalized e-learning system with formative assessment mechanism (Chen & Chen, 2009)

7. Issues: What is context? “…a multidimensional construct that has overlapping and interacting layers” (Gay & Hembrooke, 2004, p. 75) “multiple virtual and physical contexts” (Seale, 2008, p. 2)

8. Issues: What is context? Mobile learning environment (Laouris & Eteokleous, 2005)

9. Issues: What is context? Community School Class Student Context as “that-which-surrounds-the-object” (Cole, 1996, p. 135)

10. Issues: What is context? Context as “that which weaves together” (Cole, 1996, p. 135)

11. Issues: What is context? Tool User Context

12. Issues: What is context? User Tools Goals + Individual’s interpretations (Jarvela et al., 2000) + Other factors to be explored…

13. Framework of This Study Student Mobile device Student goals + Individual’s interpretations (Jarvela et al., 2000) + Other factors to be explored… Context ???????

14. Research question How did undergraduate students use the mobile device to support their studies in context?

15. Methods

16. Data collection Instruments Interview Student artifacts Student e-journals Observation Field notes

17. Data analysis Preliminary analysis Categorizing (coding) Contextualizing

18. Results and Discussions Goals Tasks Learning resources Mobile device capabilities and constraints Time and place Social factors Individual interpretations

19. The Mobile Device Use towards Learning Goals

20. The Mobile Device Use to Perform Tasks Tasks defined by the teacher Tasks defined by the student Tasks emerging in context

21. The Mobile Device Use in relation to Learning Resources Learning material provided by professors Learning material explored, collected and created by students

22. The Mobile Device Use and the Mobile Device Capabilities and Constraints

23. The Mobile Device Use and Time and Place

24. The Mobile Device Use and Social Factors Institutional Community Cultural

25. The Mobile Device Use and Individual Interpretations

26. Conclusions Context factors: goals, tasks, learning resources, time and place, the mobile device, social factors, and individual interpretation. Whether the context allows the technology to be enacted; Whether the student has the capabilities (and also willingness) to use the technology to mediate the learning activity in the context.

27. Implications To maximize the possibilities that the context provides for mobile device use to support student studies A shift from emphasizing technical aspects of developing and designing mobile learning systems to pedagogical practices and social context

28. Thank you!