Moving Language Teaching and Learning from the Known to the Unknown

This chapter considers some changes that are occurring as education adapts to new realities following the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights the potential to accept and explore the unknown, through processes of inquiry and consideration of desired outcomes. To facilitate this process, the structure of the chapter is based on a learning design framework developed as a tool for language teachers to help them reflect, innovate and prepare new learning activities to be undertaken with the use of mobile devices. In the decade up till 2020 the world seemed to be moving gradually towards a tipping point into ubiquitous mobile learning that appeared to be well aligned with ambitions for transnational educational mobility in increasingly mobile societies. When physical mobilities are suspended or limited to some degree, other types of mobility come to the fore, such as temporal and virtual mobilities that can expand horizons and enlarge our social networks and interactions. Educators should now look for more considered ways to step safely into the unknown.