Mobile learning represents exciting new frontiers in education and pedagogy. Webster University has recently started offering courses for Mobile Computing. The designed curriculum focuses on practical experiences, which includes designing, creating, and testing mobile applications on mobile devices. In this paper, we report the curriculum designs, teaching strategies and tools applied; Major fe...

The constraint of inadequate learning material and resources available to learners in some South African schools has motivated continuous attempts by the government and public to improve the education system. Most learners from poor communities rely extensively on learning material received in those schools. Language has also been identified as an obstacle in their education, as most of the Sou...

The realities of climate change are gradually dawning on everyone including children. The need for a disaster reduction education requires the use of mobile technologies to identify some of the impact of climate change within an environment and create awareness on the dangers associated with climate change. Since the pre-service teachers will teach the primary school pupils, it is aptthat the u...

Literature points out new perspectives for 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 (in)formal education. By using mobile devices, learning could be developed through collaborative interactions at any time or location. This represents a new poss...

BACKGROUND Adherence to the prescribed preparation regimen for patients scheduled for sedation gastrointestinal endoscopy (SGIE) often fails to meet health care providers' expectations. Therefore, the feasibility of using mobile phones to improve the adherence of outpatients was assessed among outpatients scheduled for SGIE. METHODS The study was designed as a cross-sectional study using surv...

The priority of education development is the introduction of modern information and communication technologies (ICT), in particular technologies of mobile learning, providing improvement of teaching and educational process, accessibility and effectiveness of education for personal development according to individual inclinations, abilities, based on lifelong learning. Due to rapid expansion, pr...

Mobile technologies have changed the shape of learning for learners, society, and education providers. Consequently, mobile learning has become a core component in modern education. Nevertheless, introducing mobile learning systems does not automatically guarantee that learners will develop a positive behavioural intention to use it and therefore use it. Thus, acceptance-of-technology and syste...

Mobile learning (m-learning) is considered the next form of e-learning using mobile technologies to facilitate education for teachers and learners anywhere and anytime. Engaging the m-learning services in the Malaysian higher education could improve the availability of education. This study intends to develop a theoretical model for explaining and predicting student acceptance and use of m-lear...

The early research involving mobile phone applications software design for the poor used the general pervasiveness of mobile phones as the major justifications for their design decisions. Other factors such as the economic levels, demographics and even the actual ownership and type of mobile phones received less emphasis. Recently, researchers have shown that good software design decisions must...

Background & aim: Preeclampsia is a serious pregnancy hypertensive disorder which is associated with high maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. One of the ways to reduce the risk of preeclampsia during pregnancy and childbirth is training midwives regarding its management. We aimed to compare the effects of mobile-based and lecture-based training methods on midwives' knowledge regardi...