Designing pedagogical models for tourism education: Focus on work-based mobile learning

Abstract

The main objective of the TravEd Research project is to develop a pedagogical model that exploits mobile technologies and electronic learning environments and that is applied especially to develop decentralised tourism education in tourist destinations with extremely mobile tourism students. Developmental work on the project will be carried out through design-based research (DBR). The approach to learning arises from the socio-cultural tradition inherent to the activities, culture, context, and environment in which the learning takes place. The focuses of attention are collaborative teaching-studying-learning (TSL) processes during which several types of applications that also enable smartphone use are utilised. This paper presents the theoretical underpinnings of the project and the first cycle of the DBR process that will be carried out during an apprenticeship period aiming to develop a pedagogical model for work-based mobile learning in tourism settings/education. © 2012, IGI Global.

Keywords

Author Keywords

Apprenticeship mobile learning Design-based research tourism education Pedagogical models Work-Based Mobile Learning.

Index Keywords

apprenticeship Apprentices Education computing education Computer aided instruction Pedagogical model Mobile Technology Mobile Learning research Design-based research Decentralised DBR Electronic learning First cycle Tourist destinations

Author Affiliations

Lapin Yliopisto, Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland

Funding & Acknowledgements

Tekes

The TravEd research project ( http://www.ulapland.fi/traved ) is funded by TEKES (the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation), ERDF (the European Regional Development Fund), the Vocational College of Eastern Lapland, City of Kemijärvi, Municipalities of Salla and Pelkosenniemi and several tourism companies in Pyhä and Salla ski resorts years 2010–2012. This study is a part of the research activities of CICERO Learning Network, Finland ( http://www.cicero.fi ).

European Regional Development Fund, FEDER

The TravEd research project ( http://www.ulapland.fi/traved ) is funded by TEKES (the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation), ERDF (the European Regional Development Fund), the Vocational College of Eastern Lapland, City of Kemijärvi, Municipalities of Salla and Pelkosenniemi and several tourism companies in Pyhä and Salla ski resorts years 2010–2012. This study is a part of the research activities of CICERO Learning Network, Finland ( http://www.cicero.fi ).

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Designing pedagogical models for tourism education: Focus on work-based mobile learning

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