Locative Media for Learning

For the student
It allows the student to have a variety of learning styles and since individuals are different, it creates the opportunity for each to find something that works for them; which makes learning more effective.
It makes subject areas more approachable and less intimidating especially for people that may be shy and may not be open enough in a proper physical class.
It provides a forum for students to express themselves better because they generate their content.
Students are able to understand in their own way and that makes it easier to remember.
It increases the students’ resource base; provides easy access to materials; and makes the student responsible for their learning;
Searching for appropriate content can be time consuming.
It can be distracting because the student may be tempted to engage more in the social than the academic aspect of work.
It is easy to plagiarise.

For the tutor
It increases the tutor’s resource base; helps to increase student participation; gives the tutor a variety of teaching tools to choose from; saves the tutor the extra time of having to source materials for the class and provides a forum for easy feedback.
It may make it harder for the tutor to enforce the formal aspect of learning