The Pedagogical Challenges to Mobile Collaborative Technologies

Mobile collaborative technologies offer a range of new ways of supporting learning by enabling learners to share rich media across different contexts, and to synchronize information and communication with location-specific experience. The presentation will approach the issue of how best to exploit these opportunities from the perspective of learners' needs. It will use a pedagogical framework to challenge these technologies to deliver a genuinely enhanced learning experience, embracing both the cognitive and the socio-emotional aspects of learning.