CHALLENGES OF MOBILE LEARNING Despite the numerous benefits mobile learning can bring to your company, there are certain challenges companies are faced with. This kind of training can give your company a competitive edge, but only when you overcome these challenges: 1. Data Security As more and more businesses depend on policies, mobile connections increase their exposure to security threats. The risk of potential breaches of corporate networks is holding many business owners from implementing mobile learning. Before starting a mobile training course, your organization needs to address the security challenges associated with all mobile traffic. With proper controls implemented, your employees can use their mobile devices safely to access business and training resources. Developing a security plan to keep your We are updating our Privacy Policy, so please make sure you take a minute to review it. 2. Content Issues Training materials created for the classroom rarely work
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IMPORTANCE OF MOBILE LEARNING Using phones in our schools can help the students to do a lot of research on their own. It will afford them the opportunity to study at their own pace. They can also learn how to respect time. This is because quizzes, assignments and tests will have time limit or deadline for submission or participation which students are obliged to adhere to. Students can also access their lecture notes online and read them before coming to the classroom. With this, students will not be listeners but active participants because they have read the notes and some questions down for clarification. In addition, using mobile phones and tablets will force teachers to do more research on topics before coming to the classroom. Some students will also read around the topic and gather enough knowledge about the topics before coming to class. Therefore, it will not be just lecturing but it will make the class very interactive. Furthermore, mobile learning increases a
The literature on mobile learning points to a variety of benefits that mobile phones could have on the educational sector. For heuristic purposes, the impacts of mobile phones on educational outcomes that are identified in the mobilelearning literature can be classified into two broad categories. On the one hand, mobiles supposedly impact educational outcomes by improving access to education while maintaining the quality of education delivered. On the other hand, mobiles purportedly impact educational outcomes by facilitating alternative learning processes and instructional methods collectively known as new learning. The Role of Mobiles in Improving Access to Education In theory, mobile learning increases access for those who are imobile or cannot physically attend learning institutions – those who would not otherwise be able to follow courses in a traditional educational setting due to the constraints of work, household activities, or other competing demands on their time. Mobile