ABSTRACT

University education across disciplines is falling short of the demands of "a dynamic and changing workforce". This includes journalism education. The chapter outlines the critical incidents that have enabled the integration of mobile learning within the journalism curriculum based upon the development of a mobile learning design framework. It shows that curriculum design should be driven by graduate outcomes—for example, matching the profile of a modern professional journalist—and founded upon a pedagogical strategy that is informed by the scholarship of technology-enhanced learning. J. Cook and P. Santos, are more positive about the potential of mobile learning, when aligned with a learning design approach that leverages new pedagogies: "A key evolving pedagogical affordance of mobile devices is the ability to use social media and apps to enable new patterns of connected social, learning and work-based practices". The chapter also explores transferable design principles.