This research was designed to explore the learning experiences of state college students using mobile electronic textbook (e-book) readers. The purpose of the study was to build a rich description of how students used e-books delivered on mobile computing devices for college-level, introductory sociology courses at a public state college in the southeastern United States. This research employed...

We explore the evolution of the mobile infrastructure in South Korea through the lens of actor network theory. In particular, we analyze the roles of standards in promoting, enabling and constraining innovation in broadband mobile services over a 10-year period. During this period, Korea moved from the position of a follower to the forefront of the mobile computing revolution by erecting one of...

Seong-Ho Jeong Hankuk University of Foreign Studies M obile IPTV lets mobile users transmit and receive multimedia traffic, such as TV signals, video, audio, text, and graphics, through IP-based networks with the support of quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE), security, mobility, and interactivity. In short, mobile IPTV extends many IPTV services to mobile users. To coordin...

Like many forms of education, health professions education is increasingly competency-based. At the same time, there is growing use of e-learning technologies, which can be linked to competencies via emerging e-learning standards. Health care has been slow to adopt competencies and e-learning standards. We report our efforts to facilitate access to competencies and e-learning content in the med...

A different dimension have come to the education with becoming widespread and cheapening of mobile devices and the development of wireless technologies, mobile devices have begun to be used in education and the concept of mobile learning has emerged. Mobile phones, smartphones, handhelds, tablets, laptop computers and wearable technologies are the main devices and categories used in mobile lear...

Adaptive assessment provides efficient and personalised routes to establishing the proficiencies of learners. We can envisage a future in which learners are able to maintain and expose their competency profile to multiple services, throughout their life, which will use the competency information in the model to personalise assessment. Current competency standards tend to over simplify the repre...