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Mobile Learning Essay

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Introduction
According to (Daniels, 2002)ICTs have become within a very short time, one of the basic building blocks of modern society. Many countries now regard understanding ICT and mastering the basic skills and concepts of ICT as part of the core of education, alongside reading, writing and numeracy. However, there appears to be a misconception that ICTs generally refers to ‘computers and computing related activities’. Modern era of ICT grown from computers to tablets & still evolving as its current extension as Pocket devices or smart phones.
M-learning is extension of e-learning through hand held devices, with features of easiness, cheaper context switching between the application, on demand services, quality and accessibility of content. User …show more content…

Mobile learning applications
(Rana, June 2014)Mobile devices integrate a series of features used invarious learning environments. In some mobile learning applications currently available, mobile features are being utilized for various educational practices include the use of Short Message Services (SMS), GPS, camera, browsing, downloading, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, voice calls and gaming. Browsing with cell phones is one convenient way for students to surf online. Most of the modern mobile phones are incorporated with browsing applications such as Opera Mini, Internet Explorer, Mozilla fire fox, Opera and Google chrome.
Mobile Phone applications are becoming indispensable parts of contemporary culture, spreading across the globe through traditional and vocational education. In India the education system can be formally divided into three parts namely primary (including nursery and preprimary), High school or secondary level (High and senior secondary levels) and the college or higher level (including college, university levels). (Devi March 2012)
Benefits of M-Learning (Elias, February 2011)(Crescente & Lee,

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