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Mobile Learning: Moving Past the Myths and Embracing the Opportunities

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dc.contributor.author Brown, Tom H.
dc.contributor.author Mbati, Lydia S.
dc.date.accessioned 2015-05-08T09:18:31Z
dc.date.available 2015-05-08T09:18:31Z
dc.date.issued 2015-04
dc.identifier.citation Tom H. Brown; Lydia S. Mbati (2015) Mobile Learning: Moving Past the Myths and Embracing the Opportunities. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL) 16(2) en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18589
dc.identifier.uri http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2071
dc.description.abstract Mobile learning (mLearning) in the open and distance learning landscape, holds promise and provides exciting new opportunities. In order to understand and embrace these opportunities within various contexts and circumstances it is imperative to understand the essence of the phenomenon. In this regard, we first need to understand the core fundamentals of mLearning and gain insight in what mLearning entails. Using critical reflection, this paper clarifies what mLearning is by invalidating myths and misperceptions related to mLearning. Acknowledging the lessons learnt through past experience, the authors then explore the opportunities that mLearning provides. mLearning challenges and risks are discussed to assist those who are keen to embrace these opportunities, in avoiding unnecessary risks and pitfalls. The paper concludes by sharing a few thoughts on the future of mLearning. These perspectives on mLearning seek to provide an overview of what mobile learning entails, recognise the achievements of mobile learning to date, and stimulate an appetite to embrace the opportunities in open and distance learning, while minimising the potential negative effects of technological, social and pedagogical change en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.rights.uri Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internatinal License.
dc.subject Mobile learning en
dc.subject misperceptions of mobile learning en
dc.subject myths of mobile learning en
dc.subject future of mobile learning en
dc.subject mLearning en
dc.title Mobile Learning: Moving Past the Myths and Embracing the Opportunities en
dc.type Article en
dc.rights.holder © Brown and Mbati


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