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A Mobile Pedagogy Approach for Transforming Learners and Faculty

Scott Hamm, George Saltsman, Breana Jones, Stephen Baldridge, and Scott Perkins

Education is undergoing a retooling. The word “tablet” no longer conjures up images of the Big Chief notebook; rather, it represents a portable digital device situated in the social, vocational, and educational habits of our interconnected daily lives. Smartphones are increasingly becoming a normative and expected tool in a global culture where smartphone sales have outpaced PC sales (Canalys, 2012) and with over 6 billion mobile subscribers worldwide (International Telecommunications Union, 2012). The ways education might harness the power and ubiquity of these devices to access content, learn, and ...

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