Internet Learning Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 2015 | Page 32

The Future of mLearning Begins with a Baseline Pedagogy
Figure 1. Interactions between theory, pedagogy, and technology
through the Internet. Presentation of the
content depends on its form. Live, written,
audio and audio/video are all options. The
instructional assets related to learning are
also related to, and provided by the Internet.
Cognitive processes can vary based on the
topic and student demographics due to
the flexibility provided by the Internet and
evaluations can include old techniques like
quizzes and papers and new techniques
like the “just-in-place” (Cruz-Flores &
López-Morteo, 2010) application of new
skills. Expressed in a formula an mLearning
pedagogy looks like this: social constructivist
theory (networking component) + Internet
content + Internet assets + instructor-tostudent/student-to-student
cognitive processes
+ instructor-to-student/student-to-student
evaluations = a baseline mLearning pedagogy.
Leveraging the means and instruments
available through the Internet to deliver
course content and the instructional assets
provides more natural options to “harden”
the pedagogy (Anderson & Dron, 2011, p.
81) than are typically employed in traditional
and eLearning classrooms. Although the
cognitive processes and evaluations also use
the Internet, the technology is pushed to the
Figure 2. Examples related to the content portion of the pedagogy.
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