Since mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, have become ubiquitous in our daily lives, their use in the modern public classrooms is an ever increasing occurrence. In order to meet the demands of the rising technology needs, teachers must be well versed in the pedagogical and curriculum uses of mobile devices. However, general and special education pre-service teacher education progra...

Diabetes self-management education plays a vital role in the treatment of people living with diabetes. This paper focuses on a new channel for the delivery of personalized diabetes education for Caribbean patients– the mobile phone. It discusses how mobile learning can be used to improve the self-care practices of patients with diabetes. It presents a mobile application called myDR (short for m...

The technology usages of high speed Internet leads to establish and start new era of online education. With the advancement of the information technology and communication systems new opportunities have been created. This leads universities to have various online education channels to meet the demand of different learners’ needs. One of these channels is M-learning, which can be used to improve...

Mobile learning systems are presented as distributed systems containing next generation educational tools for remote education. The paper describes mobile applications and their role in the learning process. The quality characteristics of distributed mobile learning systems are presented. The security, that is very important for this type of applications, is analyzed. A knowledge management per...

Mobile devices are being widely used in education for many purposes such as an instruction tool for learning. However, mobile devices suffer from the limitation of capabilities and resources. Potential solutions to this issue must consider the mobility and personal characteristics of potential education seekers. This paper theoretically describes how Semantic Web might be used to facilitate the...

Integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) in education is a very important factor to learning, regarding student centered learning environments. Special education thus, is a field where mobile technologies can be used very efficiently for less financial burden due to its small scale in student number in normal schools. These technologies are also known assistive technologies ...

The growing trend of BYOD in the higher education institutions creates a new form of student learning pedagogy in which students are able to use the mobile devices for their academic purposes in anywhere and anytime. Security threat in the paradigm of BYOD creates a great opportunity for hackers or attackers to find new attacks or vulnerabilities that could possibly exploit the students’ mobile...

Information and communication technology are well known rapid growing industry in this decade. That is nearly the same as fast as growth in costs in education. Therefore, many people have been forced to find alternative ways to meet their education needs. Innovations of distance education create a new way to provide learning content,unlimited participation and open access through Massively Open...