The roles of mental health educators and professionals in the diffusion of mental health mobile apps are addressed in this viewpoint article. Mental health mobile apps are emerging technologies that fit under the broad heading of mobile health (mHealth). mHealth, encompassed within electronic health (eHealth), reflects the use of mobile devices for the practice of public health. Well-designed m...

INTRODUCTION Mobile phone penetration has increased exponentially over the last decade as has its application in nearly all spheres of life including health and medical education. This study aimed at assessing the use of mobile learning technology and its challenges among final year undergraduate students in the College of Health sciences, University of Nairobi. METHODS This was a cross-secti...

Decades of literature have attempted to estimate intergenerational income mobility levels in the United States, but less research has examined how income mobility varies by gender, race, and education backgrounds. In this study, I use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and multivariate OLS regressions with interactions to estimate gender, race, and college education effects on mobility. ...

Today, we can say that smart phones and other smart devices are widely spread including smart TVs, which become part of everyday life. Rapid changes of our running world are well noticeable on the dizzying development of IT devices. Appearing installable operating systems on the smart devices there is a necessary requirement to be available for software professionals as well. It is proofed by t...

University lecturers are usually experts within a specific context domain of knowledge, however they are seldom expert teachers or educational technology wizards. Facilitating professional development for lecturers to engage with innovation in teaching and learning utilizing new technologies is no simple process. However, we have found that structuring lecturer professional development around a...

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 ...