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Agnes Kukulska-Hulme is Professor of Learning Technology and Communication in the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University, UK. She served as Deputy Director of the Institute in 2005-7 with responsibility for staff development, leading an innovative project on Semi-formal Learning Communities for Professional Development in Mobile Learning. She has chaired the Open University E-books Strategy Group and acted as Academic Advisor to the Mobile Learning strand of the university’s Virtual Learning Environment. Her broad experience includes ten years of writing online distance education courses for Masters level study and developing online tutors. Her original discipline background is in foreign language teaching and learning, and from this perspective she has a long standing interest in effective communication with technology and the experiences of non-technical users. This background is also reflected in her investigations of cross-cultural issues in interface designs for educational websites.
Professor Kukulska-Hulme has been researching mobile learning since 2001. Her co-edited book, Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Educators and Trainers (2005) is a key text in the field of mobile learning and has been translated into Korean (Jinhan M&B, 2008). She has led many projects investigating emergent practice with learning technologies in post-secondary education, including case studies and surveys collecting data on how students and teachers use mobile devices to support learning.
Her publications include papers on human factors and mobile usability in educational contexts, Web 2.0 and mobility, learning design for mobile and wireless technologies, learner use of e-books and digital video libraries. A recent article she co-authored gave an account of innovation in mobile learning from a European perspective, and she is currently involved in a European multi-partner project (MOTILL) seeking to analyse best practices in the use of mobile technologies for lifelong learning. Other recent work includes a special issue of the journal ReCALL on Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (2008) in which she outlines key developments in this sub-field of mobile learning. Her latest co-edited book Researching Mobile Learning: Frameworks, Tools and Research Designs (2009) is a rich resource for both new and experienced researchers and it outlines future directions for research in mobile learning.
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