Mobile learning between opportunities and risks. A critical thinking
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- Davide Borrelli (IT) Universidad Suor Orsola Benincasa de Napoles
- Carmine Piscopo (IT) Università Sapienza de Roma
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Often the introduction of the digital technologies in higher education is considered in itself as a panacea capable of improving its performance. These expectations are based on a theoretical framework that considers the technologies as isolated and autonomous factors, regardless of the activities for which they are employed and independently of the meaning and expectations that its users will perceive as well as the socio-cultural and organizational contexts where they are introduced and used. We are facing the risk that also mobile learning technology could be object of this interpretative bias. Our article aims to present its applications and development prospects.
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