About LMLG - The London Mobile Learning Group
  Mobile learning is an emerging, and rapidly expanding field of educational research and practice across schools, colleges and universities as well as in the work place. The London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG) brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of researchers from the fields of cultural and media studies, sociology, (social) semiotics, pedagogy, educational technology, work-based learning and learning design. The group has developed a theoretical and conceptual framework for mobile learning around the notion of cultural ecology. The analytical engagement with mobile learning of the group takes the shape of a conceptual model in which educational uses of mobile technologies are viewed in ecological terms as part of a cultural and pedagogical context in transformation.
       

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Norbert Pachler  

Norbert Pachler

Dr Norbert Pachler (convenor) is a Reader in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London where he is the Co-Director of the Centre for Excellence in Work-based Learning for Education Professionals. His research interests include foreign language pedagogy, teacher education and development, and new technologies in education and he has published widely in these fields. He is currently co-editor of the Language Learning Journal (Routledge), associate editor of the London Review of Education (Routledge) and editor of Reflecting Education (WLE Centre).

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Ben Bachmair  

Ben Bachmair

Until his retirement in 2008 Prof. Dr Ben Bachmair was professor of pedagogy, media education and instructional technology at the University of Kassel, Germany, and former dean of the faculty of humanities. From 1992 until 2005 he was founding chair of the international university consortium for media and cultural studies CoMundus with its European Master programme. He led the German Commission of media education for some years.
He is a member of the London Mobile Learning Group and an Associate of the WLE Centre for Excellence at the Institute of Education, University of London. As a visiting professor he teaches at the Faculty of Sociology of the State University of St. Petersburg, Russia, and is a member of the federal commission for the protection of the human dignity and of minors in broadcasting, television and the internet (KJM). He is currently scientific adviser of the MyMobile project for mobile learning (medien+bildung, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany). His specialisms include: mass communication, education and pedagogy, media and learning especially mobile learning, media socialization, media reception and personal development, protection of children from harmful media content, media education in Europe, cultural development, media and cultural studies.

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John Cook  

John Cook

Dr John Cook (PhD MSc BSc CEng MBCS CITP FHEA) is Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning and formerly Manager of the Reusable Learning Objects CETL at London Metropolitan University. He has published extensively in the area of e-learning, having a specific interest in four related areas: user generated contexts, mobile learning, ICT leadership and innovation, and informal learning. He sits on the Editorial Boards of Association for Learning Technology - Journal (ALT-J) and 'Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development'. His review work for conference and journals is wide-ranging and includes various UK research councils and Government Departments, the Science Foundation of Ireland and the European Commission. He was Chair/President of the UK's Association for Learning Technology (2004-06).
John is one of 25 selected experts worldwide invited to take part in Mobile Learning Expert Study (part of EU-funded STELLAR Network of Excellence www.stellarnet.eu). The study is titled 'Location-based and contextual mobile learning', and will be conducted by the Learning Sciences Research Institute (University of Nottingham) and the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (Open University of the Netherlands).

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Gunther Kress  

Gunther Kress

Gunther Kress is Professor of Semiotics and Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. Professor Kress' work addresses questions of meaning in their interrelations with social and cultural organisation. In his professional location, the focus of his work is on learning and on the necessary shape of curricula and forms of pedagogy in a globalising world. His conceptions around representation and communication include all the modes through which a culture represents itself and in which meanings are made, as well as the dominant media and their social effects. In this he has focused on the visual mode, for instance, as much as on language and literacy, within a broad, socially founded semiotics. His recent books include Multimodal Discourse, Before Writing: Rethinking Paths to Literacy, Literacy in the New Media Age and Reading Images: The Grammar of Graphic Design.

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Judith Seipold  

Judith Seipold

Judith Seipold (M.A.) is an associate at the WLE Centre, IoE London, and a PhD student at the University of Kassel. Her current research is on mobile learning as agentive and meaningful activity in school and everyday life. Judith focuses on the transformation of informal contexts and their structures in terms of formal learning, by means of m-learning projects in school and the use of mobile phones and their applications in everyday life. Further on, her research interests are related to offer and use of children's television, protected PC use in elementary school and media literacy in everyday life.

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Klaus Rummler  

Klaus Rummler

Klaus Rummler (M.A.) is an academic and project manager and PhD student at the University of Kassel. His current research focus is on the 'At-risk learners'' use of mobile technology and the implications for media education in the perspective of Cultural Studies. Central questions are e.g. 'What are the patterns of mobile media usage of male adolescents from low socio-economic segments', 'What are the 'at-risk learners' specific strategies of successful meaning-making with mobile technology outside school'.

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Elisabetta Adami  

Elisabetta Adami

Elisabetta Adami has a PhD in English Studies (with a research on 'Video-Interaction on YouTube: Contemporary changes in semiosis and communication') and is currently adjunct professor of English at the Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Verona, where she has a research grant at the Department of Psychology and Cultural Anthropology, for a research project titled 'English and the Media'. Her research interests focus on the changes in representation and communication deriving from the actualization into social practices of the affordances of digital media. A list of her publications can be found at http://univr.academia.edu/ElisabettaAdami.

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Associate members

John Traxler  

John Traxler

John Traxler is Professor of Mobile Learning, probably the world’s first, and Director of the Learning Lab at the University of Wolverhampton and of the UK Co-Lab of the American ADL network. He is a Director of the International Association for Mobile Learning, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning and also of Interactive Learning Environments. John has co-written a guide to mobile learning in developing countries and is co-editor with Agnes Kukulska-Hulme of Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Educators and Trainers, Routledge (2005).

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Christoph Pimmer  

Christoph Pimmer

Christoph Pimmer is a research fellow at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and a PhD Student at the University of Zürich. He has worked on several projects in the field of technology enhanced learning and mobile learning. His current research interest comprises work-based mobile learning with a particular focus on mobile learning in clinical settings.

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Carl Smith  

Carl Smith

Carl Smith (MA, PGDip) is a developer for the Reusable Learning Objects CETL at London Metropolitan University. His recent work has concentrated on exploiting the various ways that computer based modeling can be used in the design, construction and generation of RLOs (Reusable Learning Objects) and MLOs (Mobile Learning Objects). His primary research involves the investigation of these micro forms of learning from the point of view of their units of construction - to see across the whole range of constituent parts, schemas and key narratives involved in their successful development and application. His other research interests include visual literacy, pattern recognition and mixed reality. His previous projects include the Cistercians in Yorkshire Project, Palace of Darius, and Materialising Sheffield. He has previously worked at the Humanities Computing departments at Glasgow and Sheffield University. Further information about his work is available at: http://www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk/developers/smith/

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The London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG)

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MoLeaP - The mobile learning project database

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WLE Centre

The Centre for Excellence in Work-Based Learning for Education Professionals (WLE Centre) at the Institute of Education, University of London.

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