Workshop White Paper - Education in the Wild: contextual and location-based mobile learning in action

The workshop explored recent innovations into location-based, or geospatially-informed, contextual mobile learning, and issues arising from them. Location-based technologies offer opportunities for new forms of learning that engage more deeply with physical surroundings and support continuity of understanding across settings; they also pose technical difficulties of modelling and maintaining continuity of context, and ethical challenges including the right to privacy of location and escape from continual monitoring. The workshop brought together experts in mobile learning from educational and technical backgrounds, with newcomers (including PhD students) across Europe and North America. The goals of the workshop were threefold: 1. to share good practice of research innovations and case studies 2. to engage in debate and discussion of critical issues surrounding contextual and location-based mobile learning both currently and in the future 3. to conduct future-scanning activities in contextual and location-based learning