The next generation: design and the infrastructure for learning in a mobile and networked world

Focusing on intermediate and institutional levels of design for learning, this chapter explores how institutional decisions relate to design, using recent experience at The Open University as a case study. To illuminate the relationship between institutional decisions and learner-focused design, we review and bring together some of the research on learner practices in mobile and networked learning. We take a critical stance in relation to the concept of generation, which has been applied to understanding learners of different ages using terms such as net generation and digital natives. Following on from this, we propose an integrated pedagogical design approach that takes account of learner practices, spaces for learning, and technologies. The chapter also proposes future research directions focused on the changing context for learning, a distinction between place and space and an understanding of how the different levels of educational systems interact with mobile and networked technologies

Cultura móvel para a comunicação turística

Mobile devices and the corresponding culture, are transforming the way we understand and sense social, urban and intercultural processes. The aim of this text is twofold: firstly, to circumscribe the main ideas and concepts which clarify the process of mobile culture, activated through the use of locative apparatus (cell phones, etc.). Secondly, inquiry why and how mobile culture and its instruments facilitate or difficult communication within tourism activities. Tourism is one of the most relevant processes within the contemporary city, in the sense that it activates multiple urban mobilities and their modes and means of communication, in particular the social and cultural exchanges among native citizens of a destination place, and tourists visiting this locality.Os dispositivos móveis e a cultura correspondente, encontram-se a transformar a maneira como entendemos e sentimos os processos sociais, urbanos e interculturais. O objetivo deste texto é duplo: em primeiro lugar, circunscrever as principais ideias e conceitos que esclarecem o processo de cultura móvel, ativados através do uso de aparelhos locativos (telemóveis, etc.). Em segundo lugar, inquirir as causas e os meios através ds quais a cultura móvel e os seus instrumentos facilitam ou dificultam a comunicação no seio das atividades turísticas. O turismo é um dos processos mais relevantes no interior da cidade contemporânea, no sentido em que ativa múltiplas mobilidades urbanas e os seus modos e meios de comunicação, em particular o intercâmbio social e cultural entre os cidadãos nativos de um lugar de destino, e os turistas que visitam essa localidade