John Traxler
Professor of Digital Learning
Education Health and Wellbeing
University of Wolverhampton
United Kingdom
Biography
Professor John Traxler was Professor of Mobile Learning, the world’s first, since September 2009, and now Professor of Digital Learning in the Institute of Education at the University of Wolverhampton UK. He is one of the pioneers of mobile learning and has been associated with mobile learning projects since 2001 when he was evaluator for m-learning, the first major EU project. He is a Founding Director and current Vice-President of the International Association for Mobile Learning, responsible for the annual international mLearn research conference running since 2002. He is co-editor of the definitive book, Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Educators and Trainers, and Mobile Learning: the Next Generation with Professor Agnes Kukulska-Hulme. He is co-author of Mobilizing Mathematics: Case Studies of Mobile Learning being used in Mathematics Education and Mobile Learning and STEM: Case Studies in Practice, and has written more than 30 book chapters on all aspects of mobile learning. He sits on various editorial boards.
Research Interest
My original interests and activities around learning with mobiles in developed and developing regions have broadened to include many aspects of (mainly non-institutional/non formal) digital learning including early researcher development, digital literacy, informal ethics, policy and strategy development.
