Handbook of Mobile Learning

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Seamless Learning

An International Perspective on Next-Generation Technology-Enhanced Learning

Marcelo Milrad, Lung-Hsiang Wong, Mike Sharples, Gwo-Jen Hwang, Chee-Kit Looi, and Hiroaki Ogata

The Evolution of Technology-Enhanced Learning

Personalized learning has been a goal for education during the past 40 years: to provide access to learning resources and activities that adapt to the needs and abilities of the learner (Dodd, Sime, & Kay, 1968). Mobile technologies can now offer adaptivity to the physical and social settings, and their use and adoption in education have generated a new approach for technology-enhanced learning (TEL) called mobile learning, or m-learning (Sharples, Milrad, Arnedillo Sánchez, & Vavoula, 2009). The rapid development ...