Mobile Technologies in Lifelong Learning: best practices - Final Report

The MOTILL project has focused on the use of mobile technologies as a key factor in developing flexible LLL frameworks for education. During the project, different pedagogical approaches to the exploitation of mobile technologies for LLL have been selected, organized and analyzed in order to identify and spread good practices in this field. One of the most important objective of the MOTILL project has been the involvement of policy makers to promote the use of mobile technologies in lifelong learning strategies, according to local and national targets for lifelong learning, in line with European benchmarks and strategic objectives Policy makers, one of the main target groups of this project, should draw on the good practices identified by the project to form strategic priorities for lifelong learning in the mobile age. In particular, the Best Practices Collection (BPC) is an inventory of 11 projects identified as examples of innovative uses of mobile technologies in LLL. Similarly, the community of scholars, teachers, and researchers involved in mobile Learning and Lifelong Learning represent the second target group: actually, the Scientific Annotated Review Database (SARD) developed during the project provides a comprehensive set of references to the major research initiatives concerning the use of mobile technologies in Lifelong Learning (LLL) supported by integrative and critical commentary. The MOTILL project has involved partners from four different countries: Italy, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Hungary. Even though all the partners are university labs and research centres which have been working on mobile learning and lifelong learning since many years, each national context is different with respect to the lifelong learning policies adopted and to the diffusion of mobile devices. As a consequence, the MOTILL methodology is strongly rooted in research, and it is based on complementarities of expertise based on different national contexts. This represents an important added value of the project methodology. All the results of the MOTILL project are accessible online via the MOTILL Web Portal: www.motill.eu