国际高等教育领域移动学习研究:回顾与展望

Research on Mobile Learning in Higher Education: Retrospect and Prospect

With the rapid development of mobile and wireless communication technologies and the increasing number of mobile users ， higher education has become a main field of application and research for mobile learning. At the same time， more and more mobile resources emerged that provided a great condition for mobile learning. Mobile learning has become more and more important especially for higher education. This has led to the proliferation of mobile technologies and mobile devices being employed by higher education students for mobile learning purposes. And it was found that higher education students were the most utilized sample group in mobile learning. In order to promote educational inj'ormatization and to improve the quality of research on mobile learning in higher education， this study analyzed articles on mobile learning in higher education that were published during the years 2000 to 2015. Only papers categorized as ＂articles＂ were utilized. A total of 83 articles were identified by searching within the specialized database sources EBSCO host and Elsevier and using the ＂Snowball＂ method which uses the most recent works to find relevant articles cited in them provide. These articles were cross-analyzed and categorized as the following four types: the development of the definition of mobile learning， the effectiveness of mobile learning， relevant factors about mobile learning， design of mobile learning system and methodology. The literature review demonstrates that the definition of mobile learning has been extended and was divided into three stages. Three types of drifinition were developed interactively. The first type was technology-centered， emphasizing the application of mobile devices. The second type stressed the mobility of learners and their learning process. The third type highlighted the principle of learning， focusing on interactions. It emphasized how to realize learning by using mobile technologies. This paper also analyzed the existing research on mobile learning in higher education ， including the effectiveness of mobile learning， the relevant factors of mobile learning， design of mobile learning system， and the research methodology. Based on the analyses ， this article provided insights for researchers on research trends and patterns of mobile learning in higher education. Furthermore， this paper concluded that the future research of mobile learning in higher education should strengthen the research on teachers and administrators ， focus on mobile learning pedagogy， embed the change of blended learning， emphasize on improving effects of mobile learning based on relevant factors research.