Ubiquitous Learning

Bill Cope is a research professor in educational policy studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is coeditor of The Future of the Book in the Digital Age.Mary Kalantzis is the dean of the College of Education and professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is coauthor of Cultures of Schooling: Pedagogies for Cultural Difference and Social Access.

• Introduction: The Beginnings of an Idea, Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope; Part A: Concepts; 1 Ubiquitous Learning: An Agenda for Educational Transformation, Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis; 2 Meanings of "Ubiquitous Learning," Nicholas C. Burbules; 3 Ubiquitous Learning, Ubiquitous Computing and Lived Experience, Bertram C. Bruce; 4 Participatory Transformations, Caroline Haythornthwaite; 5 Ubiquitous Media and the Revival of Participatory Culture, Jack Brighton; 6 Notes toward a Political Economy of Ubiquitous Learning, Michael A. Peters; 7 From Ubiquitous Computing to Ubiquitous Learning, Michael B. Twidale; Part B: Contexts; 8 Ubiquitous Learning: Educating Generation I, Evangeline S. Pianfetti; 9 Ubiquitous Learning with Geospatial Technologies: Negotiating Youth and Adult Roles, Lisa Bouillion Diaz; 10 Digital Divide and Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, Fazal Rizvi; 11 Cyberenvironments: Ubiquitous Research and Learning, James D. Myers and Robert E. McGrath; 12 Immersive Environments for Massive, Multiperson, Online Learning, Alan B. Craig, Steve Downey, Guy Garnett, Robert E. McGrath and James D. Myers; 13 Let's Get Serious about E-games: A Design Research Approach toward an Emerging Perspective, Wenhao David Huang and Tristan E. Johnson; 14 Access Grid Technology: An Exploration in Educators' Dialogue, Sharon Tettegah, Cheryl McFadden, Edee Norman Wiziecki, Hanna Zhong, Joycelyn Landrum-Brown, Mei-Li Shih, Kona Taylor, and Timothy Cash; 15 Physical Embodiment of Virtual Presence, Karrie G. Karahalios; 16 Administrative Implications of Ubiquitous Learning for Non-profit Colleges and Universities, Faye L. Lesht; Part C: Practices; 17 History: The Role of Technology in the Democratization of Learning, Orville Vernon Burton, James Onderdonk and Simon J. Appleford; 18 Computer Science: Pen-Enabled Computers for the "Ubiquitous Teacher," Samuel Kamin; 19 Biology: Using a Ubiquitous Knowledge Environment to Integrate Teaching, Learning and Research in Biology and Chemistry, Eric Jakobsson; 20 Visual Arts: Technology Pedagogy as Cultural Citizenship, Elizabeth M. Delacruz; 21 Writing (1): Writing with Video, Maria Lovett and Joseph Squier; 22 Writing (2): Ubiquitous Writing and Learning: Digital Media as Tools for Reflection and Research on Literate Activity, Gail E. Hawisher, Paul Prior, Patrick Berry, Amber Buck, Steven E. Gump, Cory Holding, Hannah Lee, Christa Olson and Janine Solberg; About the Contributors; Index

"This book taps directly into seismic shifts occurring in what it means to go about one's everyday life when access to information and ideas are so readily at hand. The contributors move well beyond the speculative to afford readers a rich range of substantive definitions and concrete examples of ubiquitous learning."--Michele Knobel, coauthor of New Literacies: Changing Knowledge and Classroom Learning