ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a research activity aimed at investigating the impact of mobile technologies on Italian educational contexts. It focuses on three mobile learning projects that have been carried out over the past four years at the Institute for Educational Technologies (ITD) of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy. The projects share a common model for the mobile knowledge building process (mKBP), fostering social learning interactions, formal and informal learning and environmental tagging. They address three key levels of education: secondary schools, university and adult education. These three educational contexts have specific characteristics, and the issues regarding the implementation of mobile learning experiences for each context are considered separately. All the projects developed skills along several dimensions: technological expertise related to the use of both mobile devices and more generally of ICT tools for training, expertise on specific topics defined within the single experiment, and transversal competences such as collaborative work.
