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“Cascades, torrents & drowning” in information: seeking help in the contemporary general practitioner practice in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Holley, D., Santos, P., Cook, J., Kerr, M., & Treasure-Jones, T. (2016). “Cascades, torrents & drowning” in information: seeking help in the contemporary general practitioner practice in the UK. Interactive Learning Environments, 24(5), 954-967. https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2015.1128206

© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. ABSTRACT: This paper responds to the Alpine Rendez-Vous “crisis” in technology-enhanced learning. It takes a contested area of policy as well as a rapid change in the National Health Service, and... Read More about “Cascades, torrents & drowning” in information: seeking help in the contemporary general practitioner practice in the UK.

EDITORIAL: Ideas in mobile learning (2015)
Journal Article
Cook, J., Mor, Y., & Santos, P. (2015). EDITORIAL: Ideas in mobile learning. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 1(18), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.5334/jime.aw

The contributions for this Special Collection on ‘Ideas in Mobile Learning’ expand on the trends explored in the successful ‘Bristol Ideas in Mobile Learning Symposium’ which ran on the 6th and 7th March, 2014 (see Cloudworks, 2014; BIML, 2014). Four... Read More about EDITORIAL: Ideas in mobile learning.

Reconceptualizing design research in the age of mobile learning (2015)
Journal Article
Bannan, B., Cook, J., & Pachler, N. (2016). Reconceptualizing design research in the age of mobile learning. Interactive Learning Environments, 24(5), 938-953. https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2015.1018911

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. The purpose of this paper is to begin to examine how the intersection of mobile learning and design research prompts the reconceptualization of research and design individually as well as their integration appropriate for c... Read More about Reconceptualizing design research in the age of mobile learning.

m-AssIST: Interaction and scaffolding matters in authentic assessment (2015)
Journal Article
Santos, P., Cook, J., & Hernández-Leo, D. (2015). m-AssIST: Interaction and scaffolding matters in authentic assessment. Journal of Educational Technology and Society, 18(2), 33-45

Authentic assessment is important in formal and informal learning. Technology has the potential to be used to support the assessment of higher order skills particularly with respect to real life tasks. In particular, the use of mobile devices allows... Read More about m-AssIST: Interaction and scaffolding matters in authentic assessment.

Scaling informal learning at the workplace: A model and four designs from a large-scale design-based research effort (2014)
Journal Article
Ley, T., Cook, J., Dennerlein, S., Kravcik, M., Kunzmann, C., Pata, K., …Trattner, C. (2014). Scaling informal learning at the workplace: A model and four designs from a large-scale design-based research effort. British Journal of Educational Technology, 45(6), 1036-1048. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12197

© 2014 British Educational Research Association. Workplace learning happens in the process and context of work, is multi-episodic, often informal, problem based and takes place on a just-in-time basis. While this is a very effective means of delivery... Read More about Scaling informal learning at the workplace: A model and four designs from a large-scale design-based research effort.

Social network innovation in the Internet’s global coffee houses: designing a mobile Help Seeking tool in Learning Layers (2014)
Journal Article
Cook, J., & Santos, P. (2014). Social network innovation in the Internet’s global coffee houses: designing a mobile Help Seeking tool in Learning Layers. Educational Media International, 51(3), 199-213. https://doi.org/10.1080/09523987.2014.968446

© 2014, © 2014 International Council for Educational Media. In this paper, we argue that there is much that we can learn from the past as we explore the issues raised when designing innovative social media and mobile technologies for learning. Like t... Read More about Social network innovation in the Internet’s global coffee houses: designing a mobile Help Seeking tool in Learning Layers.

Online people tagging: Social (mobile) network(ing) services and work-based learning (2012)
Journal Article
Cook, J., & Pachler, N. (2012). Online people tagging: Social (mobile) network(ing) services and work-based learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 43(5), 711-725. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2012.01346.x

Social and mobile technologies offer users unprecedented opportunities for communicating, interacting, sharing, meaning-making, content and context generation. And, these affordances are in constant flux driven by a powerful interplay between technol... Read More about Online people tagging: Social (mobile) network(ing) services and work-based learning.

Ubiquitous mobility with mobile phones: A cultural ecology for mobile learning (2011)
Journal Article
Cook, J., Pachler, N., & Bachmair, B. (2011). Ubiquitous mobility with mobile phones: A cultural ecology for mobile learning. E-Learning and Digital Media, 8(3), 181-196. https://doi.org/10.2304/elea.2011.8.3.181

This article argues that mobile phones should be viewed as new cultural resources that operate within an individualized, mobile and convergent mass communication; such a recognition facilitates the options for a cultural ecology. A particular challen... Read More about Ubiquitous mobility with mobile phones: A cultural ecology for mobile learning.

Appropriation of mobile cultural resources for learning (2010)
Journal Article
Pachler, N., Cook, J., & Bachmair, B. (2010). Appropriation of mobile cultural resources for learning. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.4018/jmbl.2010010101

Copyright © 2010 IGI Global. This article proposes appropriation as the key for the recognition of mobile devices - as well as the artefacts accessed through, and produced with them - as cultural resources across different cultural practices of use,... Read More about Appropriation of mobile cultural resources for learning.

Bridging the gap? Mobile phones at the interface between informal and formal learning (2008)
Journal Article
Cook, J., Pachler, N., & Bradley, C. (2008). Bridging the gap? Mobile phones at the interface between informal and formal learning

This paper reports on a study of the use of high-end mobile phones for off-site and on-campus mobile learning. The aim of the study was to investigate how mobile devices are being integrated by learners in their informal-private ‘space’ and what use... Read More about Bridging the gap? Mobile phones at the interface between informal and formal learning.