Prof John Traxler, Director
John is Director of the Learning Lab and Professor of Mobile Learning at the University of Wolverhampton.
John’s work includes looking at innovative technologies to support diverse communities of students with the University's nationally-funded Centre of Excellence in Learning and Teaching, and with the University's Centre for International Development and Training, exploring ways of using appropriate innovative technologies to deliver education in developing countries especially sub Saharan Africa.
John has co-written a guide to mobile learning in developing countries and is co-editor of the definitive book on mobile learning: Kukulska-Hulme, A. and Traxler, J. (2005) Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Educators and Trainers, Routledge. He has been invited to present at the South African national science festival, SciFest, at Rhodes University, and was recently invited by Microsoft to the Mobile Learning Summit in Seattle and by the Canadian government to the ICTD conference in Bangalore.
He publishes regularly evaluating and embedding mobile learning, and is interested in the profound consequences of universal mobile devices on our societies.
He is jointly responsible for national workshops on mobile learning for UK universities and has delivered similar workshops to university staff in Germany, Kenya, South Africa, Canada and India. He advises UK universities on mobile learning projects, for example in large-scale-messaging, podcasting and broadcasting with Bluetooth. He is Chair of the forthcoming mLearn conference
He advises the Swiss BioVision Foundation on appropriate technologies to support Kenya farmers and continues to work with the Kenyan government implementing national support for teachers’ in-service training using mobile phones and video. He has links with South Africa’s Meraka Institute and Avallain AG, one of Europe’s leading e-learning system developers. He was the Evaluator for the EU FP6 m-learning project.