What do you think are the defining characteristics of mobile learning?

From my point of view, mobile learning has the following characteristics:

1. Portable. 

-- Learners can access stored information anytime anywhere.
    Learning resources move with learners. In other words, data and information via mobile devices is portable and moveable.

2. Wireless networking.

-- Most of problems related to internet conncetion will be avioded. This characteristic makes the process of learning vital and flexible.

3. Spontaneous

-- Mobile learning is more spontaneous than other learning resouces. For example, if you are sitting outside the Opera House, you could become curious about when the performance hall was built and look up the answer online via mobile browser.

4. Private

-- It means that only one person at a time usually has access to mobile device and  that you may access the data you want indenpendently from other learners.

5. Informal

-- Learners do not need to learn according to a course schedule. If you want to know something about a side topic, you can just simply explore that at your leisure. It also doesn't matter what you look like or when you learn -- you can use you mobile device to learn in a bussiness suit or you pajamas and still get the same information without criticism.

6. Interactive

--Mobile learning must be interactive as it relies on data from serves. Learners usually share information and exchange opinions on the cyber platform which gurantees the interactivity as the defining characteristic of mobile learning.


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Recources:

http://www.ehow.com/list_7234096_characteristics-mobile-learning_.html