E-Learning by Design, 2nd Edition

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Mobile learning

E-learning for people on the go out in the world

Mobile learning frees people to learn at the place and time they choose and to learn from a world of teachers. This learning may be part of a non-mobile form of learning, such as a field trip during a classroom course. Or the course of learning may be entirely mobile.

WHAT IS MOBILE LEARNING?

Mobile learning has two main meanings: (1) participation in learning events while mobile and (2) learning from the world in which we move.

• Participation in conventional learning by mobile individuals. Mobile learning techniques and technologies allow mobile individuals to participate in established forms of learning including classroom learning, virtual-classroom learning, standalone e-learning, ...