Problem statement: M-learning is considered as the next form of e-learning using mobile technologies to facilitate education for teachers and learners. Students need to keep in touch with their education services anytime regardless the place. Engaging the m-learning services in the Malaysian higher education will improve the availability of education. This study discusses the development and us...

Mobile Learning has a potential to improve efficiency in the education sector and expand educational opportunities to underserved remote area in higher learning institutions. However there are multi challenges in different altitude faced when introducing and implementing m-learning. Despite the evolution of technology changes in education, unfocused issues are security management even though st...

Mobility offers new possibilities for interaction and communication in education. Pervasive nature of mobile devices makes learning on the move and across time a reality. Their characteristics fit into the blended use of technology in education since they posses socializing powers, re-conceptualize learning by making it more informal, ambient, collaborative and personal. Nevertheless, the probl...

Mobile devices have become some of the fastest advancing communication gadgets. This study investigates the use, preferences and desires of mobile devices in education by male and female students. Conducting a survey among University students, it was found that students use their mobiles mostly for arranging meetings with their classmates and being mutually informed about courses. They consider...

Over the past few years the use mobile technologies for learning has attracted the interest of practitioners in all phases of education to facilitate informal learning in formal contexts (Bachmair, Cook, & Kress, 2010). Key aspects of such interests are the growing significance of mobile devices in learners’ everyday lives (Vinu, Sherimon, & Krishnan, 2011), the increasing portability of these ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the views and opinions of distance education experts regarding the replacement of traditional education with distance education settings and the advantages that the application of social and mobile technologies can bring to distance education methods. The Delphi technique was chosen as a method of study. This technique is an efficient and effective gr...

This article develops and tests a model to explain web-based and mobile devices usage by citizens to interact with their local government. By employing literature from diverse fields of information systems research, the authors derive an integrated model that investigates citizen participation on a city improvement platform. The model proposes three overall influences on platform activity: tech...

Given the prevalence of mobile devices in everyday life and recent interest in using mobiles in education, it is critical to understand teachers’ perspectives regarding mobile technology and its possible integration in their teaching. Therefore a small scale study (n=42) was conducted on a group of tertiary educators from around NZ in order to provide an initial idea of the attitudes, character...

This paper is written as part of the European Commission’s Leonardo Da Vinci project "Mobile Learning: The Next Generation of Learning" in collaboration between three of the project partners. The paper profiles three separate research areas undertaken by the partners addressing trends and practice of integrating new media and ICT applications in education. The future is wireless. The project pr...

For NKI it has been a major challenge to design solutions for users of mobile technology who wish to study also when on the move. Thus, when students are mobile and wishing to study, the equipment and technologies they use will be in addition to they equipment used at home or at work. The solutions must be designed in ways to allow both users and non-users of mobile technology to participate in...