Book Review: Models for Interdisciplinary Mobile Learning – Delivering Information to Students

The book is edited by Andrew Kitchenham from the University of Northern British Columbia (Canada) and published in 2011 by Information Science Reference (Hersey, PA), an imprint of IGI Global. The book (ISBN: 978-1-60960-511-7) has a total of 325+xxviii pages. It may be easily purchased through Internet or main bookstores of the world carrying academic titles. The book has three sections including a total of 15 chapters. The first section has 5 chapters, the second has 6 chapters, and the third section has 4 chapters. A total of 33 authors have contributed to the chapters. The authors are selected from 7 countries; they are mainly from Canada, United Kingdom, United States, France, China, Malaysia, and Australia. The chapters are also reviewed by 34 reviewers representing the same countries, with the only exception of New Zealand. Mobile learning, or m-learning, as the mobilization of e-learning can take place anytime and in any environment using state-of-the-art technologies that fit in the palm of the hand or can be carried from one place to another due to mobility needs. Models for Interdisciplinary Mobile Learning: Delivering Information to Students examines m-learning applications in various countries and sectors as individuals, groups, and institutions embrace mobile systems. The book expands on the current theories, applications, and outcomes of m-learning. It also explores how various types of e-learning practices have quickly transformed into mobile systems. The book covers topics such as contemporary mobile technologies, evaluation of m-learning practices in the areas of education, business and medicine, augmented reality in mobile learning systems, m-learning through SMS text, capabilities of mobile technologies for distance education, generic principles and pedagogies for mobile learning, situation-based and activity- based m-learning strategies, standardized design with inherent flexibility for effective and efficient mobile learning, student perceptions about m-learning, mobile learning with the Net Generation, uses of wireless handheld devices for m-learning, the use of mobile technologies in foreign language classroom, and learner generated content in m-learning applications.