Call for papers open for the next monographic Dossier on Mobile Learning Applications in Higher Education.

For more educators, mobile technology in the field of teaching and learning has recently become one of the most important areas of research. Mobile learning has become a strategic topic for many organisations concerned with education. In the past two decades, we have experienced a revolution in wireless communications that has facilitated a reduction in people’s dependency on cable in order to communicate. Moreover, in the last decade, we have seen a huge evolution in the performance and features of mobile devices. In many cases and for many tasks, this has led to mobile devices being a possible replacement for laptop or desktop computers. While it is hard to say whether the new breed of devices will be an outright replacement, they certainly mean that there is a new layer of interaction.

Thematic areas:
We are interested in receiving research articles on this topic by authors from all educational sectors and around the world. The specific thematic areas of the monographic Dossier are as follows:
-Advances in mobile learning in higher education
-Applications of mobile learning in higher education
-Evaluation of mobile learning in higher education
-Emerging technologies for mobile learning in higher education
-Ethical considerations in mobile learning in higher education
-Future of mobile learning in higher education
-Historical perspectives of mobile learning in higher education
-Instructional design for mobile learning in higher education
-Interface design for mobile learning in higher education
-Learner interaction in mobile learning in higher education
-Learner support for mobile learning in higher education
-Mobile Learning in higher education: best practices around the world
-Research on mobile learning in higher education
-Standards for developing mobile learning in higher education
-Strategies for mobile learning in higher education

Guest Editors:
-Dr Mohamed Ally is professor in Distance Education and a researcher in the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) at Athabasca University, Canada. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. His current areas of research include mobile learning, e-learning, distance education, and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in training and education.

-Dr Josep Prieto-Blázquez obtained his doctorate in Computer Science from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in January 2009. He also holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech, UPC). Since 1998, he has worked as a lecturer in the Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunication Department at the UOC, where he has been the director of the Computer Engineering (CE) programme since 2001 and a vice-dean since 2009.