Multidisciplinary Network-Based Mobile Education (NBME) and Teaching–Studying–Learning (TSL) processes: The MOMENTS Integrated Metamodel

One of the principal pedagogical insights of recent years has been the recognition of the teaching–studying–learning (TSL) process, whose three components are equally pivotal and essential to understanding the entirety (e.g., Uljens 1997; Tella 2001; Ruokamo et al. 2002). 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 multidisciplinary processes and to adopt a future orientation in doing so; (2) the concept of NBE should be extended to include the added value brought by network-based mobile education (NBME); and (3) taking these first two orientations into ac-count 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 integrated meta-model developed in the Finnish MOMENTS project (2002–2005).