1. Gila Kurtz (Ph.D)
Invited talk
Università Degli Studi Roma Tre
Rome, Italy
October 2015
http://www.slideshare.net/gilaku/rome-talk
Learning and Digital Technologies
6. • Established 2008
• BA students: 3,800
• MA students: 1,600
• ~100 full time faculty
7. Outline:
Introduction
Why digital technologies for learning?
Open Educational Resources (OER)
FB as a learning environment?
Mobile Learning
What’s next??
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Do you think that Facebook can serve
?as a learning environment
16. What is mobile learning?
Any learning which takes place via
wireless mobile devices such as smart
phones, PDAs, and tablet PCs where
these devices are able to move with
the learners to allow learning anytime,
anywhere (Naismith et al., 2006;
Wang, Wu, & Wang, 2009).
21. More examples
• Taking a quiz
• Sticky & photo sharing
• Diffusion of innovation theory
• Google Books Ngram Viewer
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22. Findings from studies
The Laptop, the Tablet,
and the Smartphone Attend the Lecture
Hagit Meishar Tal and Gila Kurtz
Rosemary, L, Goodyear, P., Grabowski, B., Puntambeker, S.,
Underwood, J. & Winters, I. (Eds.), Handbook on Design in
Educational Computing. (pp. 279-287) London: Routledge