Mobile Learning: An Emerging Learning Trend

Mobile Learning: An Emerging Learning Trend

With the increase in the globalization of business, service providers are adopting a working model where the focus is on customer interaction and on-the-spot solution modeling. This has resulted in increase in the mobile workforce. With the changed scenarios, smart companies are competing to arrive at a learning approach that can meet varied expectations of their employees and present them information as and when required. This clearly indicates that with the increase in mobility of learners, mLearning solution will complement eLearning in a big way.

This paper focuses on the upcoming learning trend, mobile learning. An attempt has been made to present various dimensions of mobile learning.

Introduction

Improved internet bandwidth and advances in technology is revolutionizing the delivery of technology-enabled services. This coupled with lack of time leads to enormous potential and demand for instantaneous services. The evaluation of a service is now based on its immediate accessibility and ability to adapt to emerging trends. Undoubtedly, learning management services also conform to this trend.

With the onset of eLearning, a new dimension was tagged to distance learning (dLearning). Learning over the internet provides learners the freedom to learn at a self-defined pace from anywhere at any time. However, with the increase in workforce mobility, the requirement has shifted to providing learning on the move. This demand has shaped the need for mobile learning, also known as mLearning.

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