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Gill Clough, "Geolearners: Location-Based Informal Learning with Mobile and Social Technologies," IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 33-44, January-March, 2010.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TLT.2009.39,
author = {Gill Clough},
title = {Geolearners: Location-Based Informal Learning with Mobile and Social Technologies},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies},
volume = {3},
number = {1},
issn = {1939-1382},
year = {2010},
pages = {33-44},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2009.39},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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KW - mobile and personal devices
KW - social learning techniques.
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Gill Clough, The Open University, Milton Keynes
This paper looks at how mobile and social technologies are influencing informal learning in the context of online community membership. The development of mobile technologies that use Global Positioning System (GPS) data to pinpoint geographical location together with the rapidly evolving Web 2.0 technologies supporting the creation and consumption of content suggest a potential for collaborative informal learning linked to location. The research described in this paper asks whether these technologies can provide an effective focus for community activities and, if so, whether this combination of location-awareness, mobile, and Web 2.0 technology results in the creation of novel informal learning opportunities. The community selected for study was the Geocaching community, a geographically dispersed group who use mobile and Web 2.0 technologies to link the virtual social spaces of the Internet with the physical spaces that surround them.

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Index Terms:
Knowledge sharing, mobile and personal devices, social learning techniques.
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Gill Clough, "Geolearners: Location-Based Informal Learning with Mobile and Social Technologies," IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 33-44, Jan.-March 2010, doi:10.1109/TLT.2009.39
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