Ubiquitous learning

Ubiquitous learning is a young field that this collection sets out to map. Its central idea is that digital media, now present almost everywhere, can make education possible in new ways, opening fresh routes to creating, sharing and reaching knowledge.

Because new media now allow nearly anyone to produce and distribute information, learning is no longer tied to a particular time or place. The essays introduce the field's core concepts, the wider circumstances that shape it, and the practices already taking root within it.

The collection gathers essays from 45 contributors, among them Bill Cope, Simon J. Appleford, Patrick Berry, Jack Brighton, Bertram C. Bruce, Amber Buck, Nicholas C. Burbules, Orville Vernon Burton, Timothy Cash, Alan Craig, Lisa Bouillion Diaz, Elizabeth M. Delacruz, Steve Downey, Guy Garnett, Steven E. Gump, Gail E. Hawisher, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Cory Holding, Wenhao David Huang, Eric Jakobsson, Tristan E. Johnson, Mary Kalantzis, Samuel Kamin, Karrie G. Karahalios, Joycelyn Landrum-Brown, Hannah Lee, Faye L. Lesht, Maria Lovett, Cheryl McFadden, Robert E. McGrath, James D. Myers, Christa Olson, James Onderdonk, Michael A. Peters, Evangeline S. Pianfetti, Paul Prior, Fazal Rizvi, Mei-Li Shih, Janine Solberg, Joseph Squier, Kona Taylor, Sharon Tettegah, Michael Twidale, Edee Norman Wiziecki and Hanna Zhong.