Handbook of Design in Educational Technology

13 Designing for Seamless Learning

Chee-Kit Looi & Lung-Hsiang Wong

Introduction

Seamless learning refers to the synergistic integration of the learning experiences across various dimensions such as across formal and informal learning contexts, individual and social learning, and physical world and cyberspace. The initial exposition by Chan et al. (2006) presents and characterizes a seamless learning notion as a conceptual ideal supported by the setting of one or more mobile device per learner. The basic premise of seamless learning is that it is neither feasible nor productive to equip learners with all the knowledge and skills they need to have based on specific snapshots of episodic time frame, location or scenario (Chen, Seow, So, Toh, & ...