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Today's world demands more efficient learning models that allow students to play a more active role in their education. Technology is having an impact on how instruction is delivered and how information is found and shared. Mobile devices have become a complete set of applications, support and help for educational organizations.
- mobile learning
- learning
- education
- mobile education
- technologies
1. Introduction
Nowadays, learning using portable digital devices, such as mobile learning (m-learning), expands into all daily activities that are related to acquiring knowledge[1]. The study of educational innovations has become increasingly important in educational research. Mobile devices, clearly, are growing faster than the world’s population. Cisco, in its Annual Internet Report (2018–2023) published in March 2020, forecasts that smartphones will have the second-fastest growth by the end of 2023. As seen in Figure 1, mobile subscriptions will increase at a 2 percent annual growth rate. This means that more than 70% of the world’s population will have a mobile phone in 2023[2].
Figure 1. Global device and connection growth (Source: Cisco Annual Report, 2018–2023[2]).
Certainly, the penetration of mobile devices has a direct impact on the way young people access information[1][3]. Mobile devices allow students to improve the way they acquire knowledge. Education is there to ensure all students can benefit from a learning experience. To do so, when considering our ever-changing world, teachers and educational institutions should embrace technology, as an innovative new methodology, to enable their students to achieve their goals[4].
2. Use of Mobile Devices in Education
According to Kukulska et al.[3], students use mobile devices mainly for learning, social interaction, entertainment, and work. In general, the most prominent uses in the area of learning are: immediate access to information and answers, reading e-books, lis-tening to podcasts, using applications for learning purposes, educational videos, educa-tional games, serious games, accessing documents or document libraries, participating in online lessons and tutorials, receiving live-streamed lectures, accessing video clips or au-dio libraries, reading asynchronous publications, participating in virtual learning commu-nities, etc[5]. An advanced m-learning technique is an augmented reality (AR). This technique shows digital infor-mation on images captured by a mobile device[6][7].
3. Issues of using mobile learning in education
4. Benefits of using mobile learning in education
5. Conclusions
The general analysis of the research indicates students are predisposed to use their mobile devices in the teaching-learning process because they are familiar with their utilization. Moreover, the success of m-learning is highly dependent on the educational institution, the teachers involved, and the students. Due to the physical characteristics of mobile devices, technological limitations are one of the main issues this technology has for its use in the educational area.
This entry is adapted from the peer-reviewed paper 10.3390/app11094111
References
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