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Media Coach is a transnational initiative of a number of well known media resource centres in Europe. Due to developments in media literacy and education it is under constant construction. We all think increasing media literacy is a major educational challenge in our knowledge societies.

'MyMobile: Education on the move' responds to the current trend toward individualisation in mobile and network communication. It reacts to today's socio-cultural and technological developments, in which computers, laptops and mobile phones provide ubiquitous individual access to communication, entertainment, shopping, internet, media offerings or knowledge archives. However, dispositions to and egrees of access differ greatly. Considering the dynamic development of the smartphone sector and e-learning, there is an urgent need for a constructive response in adult education toward enabling specific target groups to participate in the digital world.

The London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG) brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of researchers from the fields of cultural and media studies, sociology, (social) semiotics, pedagogy, educational technology, work-based learning and learning design. The group has developed a theoretical and conceptual framework for mobile learning around the notion of cultural ecology. The analytical engagement with mobile learning of the group takes the shape of a conceptual model in which educational uses of mobile technologies are viewed in ecological terms as part of a cultural and pedagogical context in transformation.

Professor John Traxler (University of Wolverhampton) has collected together a range of case studies that show how using different 'mobile learning' devices can enhance the learning of pupils This publication has been written and edited for the education community in UK higher education.

MoULe is an on-line environment for collaborative learning; by integrating smart phones and portable devices, it enables educational activities based on the exploration of a geographical place.

Higher education historically has focused on instructors teaching rather than students learning, an ineffective approach that could seriously hamper the promise of mobile learning. Successful student learning emerges from active engagement, connection to the students' prior knowledge, and simulation of real world experiences - all facilitated by engaging learners' senses through multimedia.