Mobile Learning for Global Radiation Medicine Professionals: The IAEA Model

摘要

Through eyes of content developers, this paper presents a theoretical framework to enhance content development of m-learning resources. First, this paper examines literature on challenges and opportunities that m-learning faces. Second, this paper addresses one research question: how can education principles enhance content development of m-learning resources? Third, this paper addresses sound education principles that are integrated to enhance m-leaming content development. "Adult m-learners", a proposed term to refer to target audience of an available m-learning platform, purposefully can decide how they can best benefit from the mlearning platform, as developed by the Division of Human Health (NAHU) of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The NAHU perceives the m-learning as an "andragogical approach" to complement traditional learning processes in addition to the learners' existing formal and informal trainings in radiation medicine. The "adult mlearners" must have personal learning purposes and needs which mindfully lead them to choose to learn from the m- learning materials. A result of this study is a policy consideration to embrace the education principles to enhance education and training programmes of the NAHU. This study has been going under a sequence of focus group meetings between external consultants and NAHU professional staff members since 2008. The IAEA is a non-university setting, but m-learning content developers in both university and non-university settings can benefit from this study by considering and adapting the theoretical framework to fit their institutional needs and practices.