An M+I+T++ Research Approach to Network-Based Mobile Education (NBME) and Teaching–Studying– Learning Processes: Towards a Global Metamodel

One of the principal pedagogical insights of recent years has been the recognition of the teaching–studying–learning (TSL) processes, whose three components are equally pivotal and essential to understanding the entirety. A second innovation, which has developed with advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs), is network-based education (NBE). In this paper we argue that (1) it is essential to examine TSL as multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary (M+I+T++) processes and to adopt a future orientation in doing so; that (2) the concept of NBE should be extended to include the added value brought by network-based mobile education (NBME), and that (3) taking these first two orientations into account allows us to create the theoretical prerequisites for better understanding the mechanisms and regularities underpinning knowledge construction in novel operating environments that make use of technology. These arguments constitute the foundation of the global metamodel developed in the MOMENTS project.