BACKGROUND The rapid global adoption of mobile health (mHealth) smartphone apps by healthcare providers presents challenges and opportunities in medicine. Challenges include ensuring the delivery of high-quality, up-to-date and optimised information. Opportunities include the ability to study global practice patterns, access to medical and surgical care and continuing medical education needs. ...

Technology is changing very rapidly and nearly all branches of education are affected by these changes. As a result of these rapid changes there has been significant interest and growth in the number of educational institutions using mobile devices to support learning and teaching. There is also an increase use of wireless technologies in education all over the world. In fact, wireless technolo...

Background: Today, mobile phone technology has provided an opportunity for teachers and students to improve their continuous teaching/ learning process. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of learning via mobile phone in the course of clinical pharmacology of medical students at pediatric ward. Methods: In this semi-experimental study, 40 medical students at their last ...

This research aims at the relationship between dependence on mobile social networking and academic performance of second-grade male high school students in Tabriz City. This research is an applied research based on descriptive-correlational methodology. Statistical population of this research includes all second-grade male high school students in the academic year of 2016-2017 whose volume is 2...

This research explores the effect of mobile technologies in Lebanese higher education classrooms. Four components were utilized to evaluate the impact: student attitudes, student achievements, and educational process. The findings of this study showed that when Mobile with 3G technologies used in education, it affected students’ attitudes such as take pleasure in class, positive learning experi...

BACKGROUND A modern competency-based medical education is well implemented globally, but less is known about how the included learning activities contribute to medical students' professional development. The aim of this study was to explore Swedish medical students' perceptions of the offered learning activities and their experiences of how these activities were connected to their professional ...

During recent years, many distance teaching as well as residential institutions have started to experiment with mobile learning through pilot projects as part of their e-learning and technology enhanced learning environments. Mobile learning should not be regarded as a medium for distance learning. However, because of the similar affordances of distance learning technologies and online and mobi...

The literature presents new perspectives for the collaborative learning through the use of mobile devices. This subject has being widely discussed by education and computer science researchers, showing as one of the strands for the future of formal and non-formal education. However, software applications in this context do not fully explore multimedia resources available at the current mobile d...