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Keywords
blended learning
pedagogy
mobile learning
pedagogy
mobile learning
How to Cite
Smith, W. M., Lewi, H., Saniga, A., Stickells, L., & Constantinidis, D. (2017). Bringing the classroom into the world: three Australian cases of designing mobile technology to support blended learning for the built and landscaped environment. Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.jpblhe.v0i0.1556
Abstract
We describe and reflect on three case studies of developing fieldwork for tertiary students of architectural history, landscape history and urban design. In each case, the potential of blended learning was explored through the use of mobile technology to explore designated sites as extensions of class-based learning. Two studies involved the development of apps that worked as guides for students to explore places of significance in Melbourne, while one study invited students to develop a design for a mobile app that could communicate the influence of urban design thinkers on a particular place in Sydney. We describe how these three exercises provide insights into the way that mobile technology, both real and imagined, can provide a conduit between classroom and field learning. Equally significant, we reflect on how the process of designing the apps became one of extended co-creation between student, tutors and teaching staff, also with consequence for learning.
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Latham, A. & McCormack, D. Digital (2007). ‘Photography and Web-based Assignments in an Urban Field Course: Snapshots from Berlin’. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 31 (2), 241-256.
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Siemens, G. (2005) ‘Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age’. Retrieved from http://www.itdl.org/journal/jan_05/article01.htm
Snyder, C. (2003) Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.
Yin, R. K. Case study research: Design and methods. Sage publications, 2013.
Zimmerman, John, Erik Stolterman, and Jodi Forlizzi. "An analysis and critique of Research through Design: towards a formalization of a research approach." Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. ACM, 2010.
Bedall-Hill, N. (2011). ‘Postgraduates, field trips and mobile devices’. In J. Traxler and J. Wishart (Eds.), Making Mobile Learning Work: Case Studies of Practice (pp. 18–22) (ESCalate HEA Subject Centre for Education). Available at: http://escalate.ac.uk/8250
Carter, P. (1992). The Sound In Between: voice, space, performance. Kensington, New South Wales University Press.
Carvalho, L. & Garduno Freeman, C. (2016). ‘CmyView:Walking together apart’. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Networked Learning 2016, (Eds.) S. Cranmer. N. B. Dohn, M. de Laat, T. Ryberg & J. A. Sime, 313-320.
Dunphy, A. and Spellman, G. (2009). ‘Geography fieldwork, fieldwork value and learning styles’, International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 18(1), 19- 28.
Dyson L. E., Litchfield A., Lawrence E., Raban R. and Leijdekkers P. (2009). ‘Advancing the m-learning research agenda for active, experiential learning: Four case studies’. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 2009, 25(2), pp. 250-260.
Farman, J. 2012. Mobile interface theory: Embodied space and locative media. London and New York: Routledge.
Garrison, D. & Vaughan, N. (2008). Blended learning in higher education: Framework, principles, and guidelines. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons.
Goh, D H., Khasfariyati R., Lee, C. S., Lim, E. P. & Chang, C. H. (2012). The Electronic Library, 30 (5) 589-607.
Grant, S. and Holt, N., (2012). ‘Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson in England, 1969, In Tate Etc, Issue 25, Summer 2012. Accessed: 11 April 2016 from http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/nancy-holt-and-robert-smithson-england-1969.
Hardy, A. (1996). ‘Architectural History and Ways of Seeing’. In Architectural History and the Studio, (Eds.) A. Hardy & N. Teymur, London, Question Press.
Hall, G. 2013. 'Toward a postdigital humanities: Cultural analytics and the turn to data-driven scholarship', American Literature, 85 (4): 781-809.
Kent , M. , Gilbertson , D. D. and Hunt , C. O. (1997). ‘Fieldwork in geography teaching: A critical review of the literature and approaches’. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 21(3), 313–332.
Knopf R.C. (1987). ‘Human Behavior, Cognition, and Affect in the Natural Environment’. In D. Stokols & I. Altman (Eds). Handbook of Environmental Psychology 1, New York, Wiley, 783–789.
Latham, A. & McCormack, D. Digital (2007). ‘Photography and Web-based Assignments in an Urban Field Course: Snapshots from Berlin’. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 31 (2), 241-256.
LBath, D. & Bourke, J. (Eds.). (2010). Getting Started with Blended Learning, Brisbane, Qu: Griffith Institute for Higher Education.
Bedall-Hill, N. (2011). ‘Postgraduates, field trips and mobile devices’. In J. Traxler and J. Wishart (Eds.), Making Mobile Learning Work: Case Studies of Practice (pp. 18–22) (ESCalate HEA Subject Centre for Education). Available at: http://escalate.ac.uk/8250
Carter, P. (1992). The Sound In Between: voice, space, performance. Kensington, New South Wales University Press.
Carvalho, L. & Garduno Freeman, C. (2016). ‘CmyView:Walking together apart’. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Networked Learning 2016, (Eds.) S. Cranmer. N. B. Dohn, M. de Laat, T. Ryberg & J. A. Sime, 313-320.
Dunphy, A. and Spellman, G. (2009). ‘Geography fieldwork, fieldwork value and learning styles’, International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 18(1), 19- 28.
Dyson L. E., Litchfield A., Lawrence E., Raban R. and Leijdekkers P. (2009). ‘Advancing the m-learning research agenda for active, experiential learning: Four case studies’. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 2009, 25(2), pp. 250-260.
Farman, J. 2012. Mobile interface theory: Embodied space and locative media. London and New York: Routledge.
Garrison, D. & Vaughan, N. (2008). Blended learning in higher education: Framework, principles, and guidelines. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons.
Goh, D H., Khasfariyati R., Lee, C. S., Lim, E. P. & Chang, C. H. (2012). The Electronic Library, 30 (5) 589-607.
Grant, S. and Holt, N., (2012). ‘Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson in England, 1969, In Tate Etc, Issue 25, Summer 2012. Accessed: 11 April 2016 from http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/nancy-holt-and-robert-smithson-england-1969.
Hardy, A. (1996). ‘Architectural History and Ways of Seeing’. In Architectural History and the Studio, (Eds.) A. Hardy & N. Teymur, London, Question Press.
Hall, G. 2013. 'Toward a postdigital humanities: Cultural analytics and the turn to data-driven scholarship', American Literature, 85 (4): 781-809.
Kent , M. , Gilbertson , D. D. and Hunt , C. O. (1997). ‘Fieldwork in geography teaching: A critical review of the literature and approaches’. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 21(3), 313–332.
Knopf R.C. (1987). ‘Human Behavior, Cognition, and Affect in the Natural Environment’. In D. Stokols & I. Altman (Eds). Handbook of Environmental Psychology 1, New York, Wiley, 783–789.
Latham, A. & McCormack, D. Digital (2007). ‘Photography and Web-based Assignments in an Urban Field Course: Snapshots from Berlin’. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 31 (2), 241-256.
Lee, A., Dunston, R., and Fowler, C. (2012). ‘Seeing is believing: an embodied pedagogy of ‘doing partnership’ in child and family health’. Practice, Learning and Change: Practice-Theory Perspectives on Professional Learning. (Eds.) P. Hager, A. Lee, & A. Reich. Dordrecht: Springer.
Nichols, D and Lewi, H, (2016). ‘Bristling with Opportunity: Audiovisual technology in Australian schools from the 1930s to the 1980s’. In K. Darian-Smith & J. Willis, (Eds.), Designing Schools, London, Routledge, 218-228.
Sharples, M., Corlett, D. and Westmanacott, O. (2002). ‘The design and implementation of a mobile learning resource’ Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol 6, 220-34.
Siemens, G. (2005) ‘Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age’. Retrieved from http://www.itdl.org/journal/jan_05/article01.htm
Snyder, C. (2003) Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.
Yin, R. K. Case study research: Design and methods. Sage publications, 2013.
Zimmerman, John, Erik Stolterman, and Jodi Forlizzi. "An analysis and critique of Research through Design: towards a formalization of a research approach." Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. ACM, 2010.
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