Mobile Training
Photo: ‘Noongar Students’ - Midland TAFE, Mobile Training Project
Author / Interviewer
Eric Wilson
Abstract
A short article introducing fundamental concepts, topics, and emergent themes which were permeating the rhetoric and mantra of the mobile learning pedagogy fraternity in the education and training sectors of Australia. The Australian Flexible Learning Framework (AFLF), the Tasmanian Institute of TAFE, and Swan TAFE, Western Australia are featured in this article as protagonist research centres for this ‘emergent learning in the hand’ for ‘disengaged youth’. It was within my research that learners were determined as ‘highly engaged’ especially the Aboriginal Noongar students and the curriculum, planning, training and policies of the colleges were lagging behind the global uptake of mobile technology as a wearable computing device. It was through the ‘TextMe’ project that I was engaged firstly as a Senior Education Officer at the Swan District Education of Office and then offered a role at the Centre for Learning Innovation (CLI), Department of Education NSW Australia.
Keywords
mlearning, m-learning, elearning, e-learning, PDA, mobile, content, access mobile, internet, research, TAFE, VET
Publisher
The Age
Publication Date
14 December 2004
Suggested Citation
Eric Wilson, Marcus Ragus, and Alexander Hayes. Mobile training. The Age. December 14, 2004.
Links
First published on December 14, 2004, at the Sydney Morning Herald
