The leitmotiv and the real objective of this dissertation are to focus on new learning paradigms and contexts around mobile devices and problemsolving competence. This research begins with a thorough review of literature and other related works. It analyses them and extracts a number of conclusions regarding the reasons for the lack of specific Knowledge and Learning Technologies for mobile lea...

Integratingmobile phones into higher education, andmore specifically in the distance education context, is no longer regarded a strange phenomenon. Mobile devices arewidely used by distance education institutions tomake learning available and accessible to increasingly more students. Although mobile learning providesmoremobility and convenience to these students than online learning, students m...

BACKGROUND mHealth holds the potential to educate rural communities in developing countries such as Malawi, on issues which over-burdened and under staffed health centres do not have the facilities to address. Previous research provides support that mHealth could be used as a vehicle for health education campaigns at a community level; however the limited involvement of potential service users ...

The huge information flow currently available to young generation makes it difficult for educational centers to train them as needed. Most of these information flows occur in transportation time or while on public areas. Competing with commercial information streams is far out of educational centers time and budget. For creating enough mobile applications for vast educational mobile content bro...

The researcher conducted present study with the objectives to a). evaluate attitude of learners towards academic and tutoring skills of distance education tutors, b). assess the opinion of distance learners about assessment and evaluation skills of their tutors and c). examine reflection of learners on scaffolding skills of distance education tutors. The population of the study consisted of lea...