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Mobile LearningMobile Learning
Here you will find a beginning subset of materials to acquaint yourself with mobile learning and mobile performance support. This is often also referred to as ubiquitous learning or pervasive learning.

There are several definitions of mobile learning (or mlearning). An interesting difference from e-learning by Intuition is "The fundamental difference between e-learning and m-learning is that to deliver e-learning you bring the learner to the device; with m-learning, you bring the knowledge to the learner."

 
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What is Mobile Learning?
Gary Woodill's definition is "True mobile learning is personalized learning that unites the learner’s context with cloud computing, using a mobile device."

Following are some important papers and links for more information on mobile learning.

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Examples and Sites
Here you will find several examples of mobile learning. Please send other suggestions for inclusion to email.

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Research and Stats
The mobile environment is a fast growing and changing industry. We are beginning to see research on the benefits of having access to materials everywhere and all the time.

Note the increasing interest in Mobile Learning at Google Trends:
Google Trends

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