Aspects of Mobile Education and Technologies: A Literature Review

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Table of Contents
1. Literature Review........................................................................................................................2
1.1 Introduction............................................................................................................................2
1.2 Effective uses of mobile technology in the classroom..........................................................3
1.3 Current mobile education and technologies..........................................................................4
1.4 Benefits of reading application among young children.........................................................6
1.5 Assessment of issues in usefulness of mobile applications for young children....................8
1.5.1 Problems of evaluating learning application..................................................................8
1.5.2 Challenges to adopt mobile learning in classroom.........................................................9
1.6 Necessity of developing standards for mobile design and development.............................10
1.7 Introduction of ‘User-led’ education through the application of the mobile technology and
its advantages.............................................................................................................................12
1.8 Implementation of mobile learning.....................................................................................14
1.9 Future of mobile technology driven education system........................................................17
1.10 Conclusion.........................................................................................................................18
References......................................................................................................................................20

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1. Literature Review
1.1 Introduction
The literature study investigates about the perceptions of teachers and young children
concerning the impact of employ of mobile devices for educational purposes. Sarrab, Elbasir and
Alnaeli (2016) stated that the mobile learning stands for a way to tackle number of educational
issues. The devices like smart phones, tablets are enabled for modernization furthermore helped
the young children and teachers to gain access to the digital content. The mobile devices are used
of 4G/3G connectivity which is required tools to get better teaching in addition to learning. The
mobile devices by means of cellular connectivity improve children learning and engage both
them along with teachers. Keengwe and Bhargava (2014) argued that mobile technology is a way
to offer innovative content along with ease informational access everywhere the children is
positioned. It facilitates and connects the mobile learning in a mode that can convert learning
environment for the young children in and out of the school.
This literature study is written to analyze the aspects of the mobile education and mobile
learning in educational field. The literature review has measured probable sources of the
available research on the chosen topic for the mobile teaching along with learning. The main
focus is on mobile technology on how it is being employed in the educational institutions. The
literature study is based on effective uses of mobile technology in the classroom, current mobile
education plus technologies, benefits of reading application among young children and
assessment of issues in usefulness of mobile applications for young children. It also analyzes
necessity of developing standards for mobile design and development.

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1.2 Effective uses of mobile technology in the classroom
In present world of technology, it is critical to imagine the school without the computers
as well as internet. Various type of educational websites provide information to students help
them in exams. In the era of tech-savvy, the outcome of mobile learning is trendy as well as it is
powerful source of effective mobile learning. Katz (2017) shown that the mobile technology is a
tool for teaching and learning experiences increase efficiency among the young children towards
learning. The mobile device ownership is increasing in United Kingdom. This study analyzes
about the benefits to employ of mobile in education. The young children and educational
institutions are discovered benefits of employ of mobile technology within the classroom.
Domingo and Gargante (2016) stated that it is easier to employ of mobile device for improving
right to use the information. Whether the information is related to course, the mobile devices
help the teacher to gain access to the information faster. As per the teacher, usage of mobile
technology helps and allows for quicker and provides easier feedback. The young children are
agreed that there is faster communication among the lecturers as well as colleagues with use of
the mobile devices. Kearney, Burden and Rai (2015) discussed that technology can provide new
opportunity to do things in various ways. One of the major features of mobile technology is
creativity used to build work effective as well as achieve of higher results. The teachers are used
of technology to make learning more efficient, and there is creative use of the technology into
the classroom.
Zydney and Warner (2016) analyzed that technology is powerful and it is used to make
both teaching as well as learning powerful. The teachers are used of audio recording feature in
the Smartphone for offering personal as well as quality feedback to young children. This study is
based on proven that the young children are not liked feedback provided in traditional way, but

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they are preferred to use of Smart technology for getting feedback (Keengwe and Bhargava,
2014). The teachers can exploit of chat features of the mobile devices for creating online
discussion forum to motivate the class participation on the contented topics. The children can
chat as well as discuss at home on the subject into the classroom to increase an understanding of
the concepts. Traxler and Crompton (2015) stated that quick response codes are one of the way
to employ of mobile technology into the classroom. Technology is powerful and benefits to
make the work effective. It can also raise productivity plus help to achieve better results in the
work which make the mobile learning more effective.
Ally and Prieto-Blázquez (2014) pointed that in regard to usage of mobile technology, the
types of learning through employ of mobile phones is done through sound, short text messages,
graphical display, information gathered from the data, internet search and video clips. According
to Voogt et al. (2017), sending of educational texts via the cell phones in the education has
positive effects on the educational field. The positive effects of the mobile phone are
improvement of learning plus rising an understanding of various concepts. Briz-Ponce et al.
(2017) stated that constructive is used of time which prevent the time for being wastage. Kim
and Shin (2015) said that recent development in the software as well as hardware, qualities will
let the teachers produce and patent the qualities of young children. The mobile phones are
cheaper; therefore interest of young children to use mobile phones will facilitate learning.
Communication with use of mobile phones is collaboration tool which can facilitate proper
social relationships with the learners.
1.3 Current mobile education and technologies
The mobile technologies are penetrated in the society in short period of time. The
technologies are referred to the Notebooks, iPods, PDA, tablets and Smartphone. Lee et al.

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(2018) illustrated that advent of those technologies can consider an interest among the
educational institutions and mobile learning. Yoo and Lee (2015) argued that the mobile devices
can change pattern of learning because of its portability as well as support to access learning
materials. As per the below provided pie chart, it is seen that PDA is used for educational as well
as learning purposes. Smartphone is used devices which are mostly used into educational
institutions to provide support to learning. The devices are examined based on efficiency of the
information, satisfaction level and outcomes related to learning.
Figure
1:
Mobile
devices used for m-learning
(Zydney and Warner, 2016, pp-7)
The mobile learning is implemented in dissimilar educational contexts such as formal,
informal as well as non-formal. According to See (2017), scenery of mobile learning enlarges its
confines of the formal education towards informal education context. It is analyzed that
frequency of usage of mobile devices is higher in case of non-informal educational contexts as
compared to both formal as well as informal educational contexts. Keengwe and Bhargava
23%
16%
8%
15%
15%
14%
Mobile devices used for m-learning
PDA
Handheld
Pocket PC
Smartphones
Mobile phones
Notebooks