Mobile Learning in Higher Education

Mobile learning (m-learning) has become a quite significant factor in higher education. Mobile devices such as netbooks, tablets or smart phones have become ubiquitous in the institutions of higher education. Nearly all students nowadays own mobile devices and about half of them own more than one. In addition, because these devices are highly personalized and collaborative communication tools, they provide the institutions of tertiary education with flexible tools for complementing the existing technologies and extending the learning beyond the classrooms and homes from remote places like train or bus stations where students do not have any access to computers. Therefore, the aim of this article is to survey whether students of higher education are well equipped for mobile learning; to discover whether and how often these students use mobile devices for education, and for their school studies in particular; and to find out students’ opinion on m-learning.