A research paper which argues that mobile phones and portable devices can lead to new perspectives and practices in learning has become the 10,000th item to be deposited in The Open University's research repository - Open Research Online (ORO).
Launched in 2006 as part of the 'open access movement' - an initiative to make peer-reviewed research free to readers - ORO is visited by around 7000 people across the world each week and claims to be the eighth largest higher education repository in the UK. Currently around 20 percent of the articles deposited on ORO provide access to the full-text, with research ranging from dating climate change on Mars to investigations of rhythm in North Indian music.
The 10,000th item, 'Will mobile learning change language learning?', was written by Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Professor of Learning Technology & Communication at The Open University. The paper looks at the impact mobile phones and other portable devices are beginning to have on how learning takes place, and concludes that an emphasis on mobility can lead to new perspectives and practices. It was first published in ReCALL, the journal of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL). The article, which was published in May 2009, has been made freely available with permission of Cambridge University Press, which publishes ReCALL on behalf of EUROCALL.
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