The increasing use of mobile devices in work contexts has the potential to alter our work and learning practices. This is particularly true for knowledge workers. In addressing the implications of this transformation the book offers a multi-faceted collection of different concepts and cases of mobile learning in work environments from international contexts. The contributions are centred on the question of how individual users and organisations can harness mobile devices for learning and education. The range of examples presented in this book demonstrates that mobile devices foster situated approaches to learning in and across work contexts. The book is targeted at both practitioners - trainers or managers in charge of in-company training - and researchers, who are interested in designing, implementing or evaluating work-based mobile learning.

Contents: Norbert Pachler/Christoph Pimmer/Judith Seipold: Work-based mobile learning: an overview - Karen Evans: Work-based learning: Setting the scene - Ceridwen Coulby/Julie Laxton/Stuart Boomer/Nancy Davies: Mobile technology and assessment: A case study from the ALPS programme - Lucy Stone: The WoLF project: Work-based Learners in Further Education - Selena Chan: Becoming a baker: Using mobile phones to compile e-portfolios - Ruth Wallace: The affordances of mobile learning that can engage disenfranchised learner identities in formal education - Claudia de Witt/Sonja Ganguin/Maciej Kuszpa/Sandro Mengel: Mobile learning in the process of work: Participation, knowledge and experience for professional development - Geoff Stead/Martin Good: Mobile learning in vocational settings: Lessons from the E-Ten BLOOM project - Liza Wohlfart/Simone Martinetz/Alexander Schletz: From know-how to knowledge: Exploring Web 2.0 concepts for sharing hands-on service expertise - Michael E. Auer/Arthur Edwards/Danilo Garbi Zutin: Online laboratories in interactive mobile learning environments - Sarah Cornelius/Phil Marston: Work-based simulations: Using text messaging and the role of the virtual context - Kevin Burden/Sandy Schuck/Peter Aubusson: Ethical professional mobile learning for teaching and nursing workplaces - Jocelyn Wishart: Ethical concerns relevant to researching work-based mobile learning - Christoph Pimmer/Urs Gröhbiel: Mobile learning in corporate settings: Results from an expert survey - Jocelyn Wishart/David Green: Future scenarios for workplace-based mobile learning.