iReflect: Mobile Reflection for Learning
Abstract: Journaling, or maintaining a diary, is the most common mode of documentation for reflective practice (Clarke & Burgess, 2009). Text and cognitive based reflective practice by students can be supported in face to face delivery mode, during any teaching session. The challenge is how to support, even scaffold, student reflective practice for distant and blended delivery modes. Off-campus learning presents one of the more challenging modes of delivery for supporting student learning through reflection (Harvey. et.al, unpublished research) and this challenge is exacerbated when students are learning through their placement experience in remote areas that lack, or have unreliable, internet access. An all-in-one mobile app that enables documentation as text, images, audio, video or drawing has the potential to foster reflective practice within our students. The app needs to enable uploading to iShare (Macquarie University repository platform), allow for push notifications to scaffold reflecti
Presider: Babak Khosravifar, Mentorina Research and Development Inc.