What's driving M-Learning

5* driving forces

• Educational institutions’ flexibility in the face of rapid / unpredictable change in mobile technologies
• Valuing informal learning, hobbies and skills  (self-directed learning)  ↔ enforced formal learning
• Affordable and available connectivity / Technology costs / Mobile phone costs ↔ ubiquitous, free wireless
• Government policy, objectives and funding: e-strategy, Every Child Matters, Digital Divide, Regeneration / Shifts in educational governance

3/4* driving forces

• The device market / Availability of appropriate devices
• The changing culture of the learner – digital native

2* driving forces

• Appetite for access to information and communication on demand
• Interoperability ↔ individual systems
• Valuing product ↔ valuing process
• Changes in the culture of education

1* driving forces

• Economic well-being
• Life-long learning
• Partnerships between mobile technology companies and learning communities
• People’s tolerance for change / disruption
• Changes in the perception of what / who education is for
• Wider changes in social, economic and political discourse
• Learning as an individual ↔ collaboration in learning

Also - rans

• Privacy ↔ information sharing
• Consumers ↔ creators
• Increasing student numbers in HE
• Mobile phone companies
• Sustainable hardware ↔3 year life
• Changes in the nature of assessment
• Growth in distance education
• Globalisation

Anti-drivers

• Exam system
• Traditional teaching practices – control