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William Diehl publishes chapter in the ‘Handbook of Mobile Learning’

William Diehl, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Education, contributed a chapter to the Handbook of Mobile Learning, a Routledge publication (edited by Zane L. Berge and Lin Y. Muilenburg), which provides a comprehensive compendium of research in all aspects of mobile learning.  

The Handbook of Mobile Learning has been awarded the 2014 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Division of Distance Learning (DDL) Distance Education Book Award.

Diehl’s chapter is titled "M-Learning as a subfield of open and distance education" and addresses the evolution of the social and technological foundations of open and distance education, including mobile learning, which is a part of the evolving field of distance education.

The chapter covers historical foundations and emerging technologies. It also reminds readers that new technologies, from the postage stamp, to radio, to television, to the World Wide Web and mobile devices (and beyond) have been consistently hailed as "breakthroughs" in delivery but that the theory and practice that have been well established in the field of distance education over the past four decades can inform the pedagogical approaches that will serve students.

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