I'm starting to think I could spend the entire 120 hours for this particular master course on reading only - and then I still would have covered only a part of the available relevant literature. I bet the minute I'm typing this, somebody somewhere is submitting a report to a journal or uploading an article online that I cannot afford to omit in my study.
Last week I came across this SIG (Special Interest Group) on Mobile Learning, called Kaleidoscope. How come I didn't find out before? Anyway, they put out this 'Report on literature on mobile learning, science and collaborative activity' (main author Giasemi Vavoula), which means another 100 pages to read... Not to mention the 'CSCL Alpine Rendez-Vous' they organised, with (among other stuff) a 100 pages manual to a workshop called 'Beyond Mobile Learning'. All of these written by the best on mobile learning, I've come to recognise their names.
So I'm suffering from information overload and could do with a word from my coach. Christian, where are you? I need some guidance here to find a red thread, a theme to work on.
I am not being entirely honest here. I didn't just stumble upon the SIG. In my initial list of reports on mobile learning projects, there was one article about adult learners, dealing with 'intentional informal learning'. This means that the learning process and the learning goal are explicitly learner defined (within informal learning). A matrix to visualise a typology of learning as introduced by Vavoula was shown and this caught my attention.
Vavoula uses three types of learning:
intentional, formal learning - process and goal are explicitly teacher defined
intentional, informal learning - process and goal are explicitly learner defined
unintentional, informal learning - process is non-prescribed, goal is unspecified
I'm taking this a bit further next and hope to catch some important papers on this issue from the Kaleidscope SIG.
