Mobile Learning in Higher Education

Definitions Of Mobile Learning

The explosive growth of mobile devices that support personal communication are accelerating the transition away from desktop web-based application and are transforming social notions of discourse and knowledge. Today’s mobile devices have strong computing capabilities with high-frequency central processing unit (CPU). Wrist-worn devices, mobile phones, handheld computers, web pads, pen tablet computers, laptop computers, and so forth have been widely used in mobile learning (Sharples & Beale, 2003). These devices put convenient multimedia service applications into practice with friendly human computer interfaces and operation modes. Through a variety of network connection techniques, the devices can also access abundant network resources. These devices have been deployed as learning tools in both formal and informal learning contexts and have been used from small-scale, short terms trails to larger, more sustained and blended deployment (Traxler, 2009).