This book provides a comprehensive basis for you to take advantage of
mobile learning. It approaches mobile learning from a fundamental perspective,
helping you understand and appreciate the rich opportunities
that mLearning presents. The book briefly reviews the history of learning
from a broad perspective and then goes on to survey the breadth
of devices available in today's market, equipping you with appropriate
ways to think about and pursue mobile learning. mLearning requires
some new perspectives, and a variety of ways to think differently about
the opportunities are presented to help shake up your thinking in productive
ways. The book addresses the process of designing, delivering,
and deploying mobile solutions, along with organizational pragmatics,
to guide you through your mobile projects. Finally, discussions of
strategic implications and a review of coming directions keep you prepared
for the future. Examples help ground the concepts throughout
the book.
The mobile learning toolkit is the result of research into mobile phone use and userneeds within the African context, however it has been developed for use in all developingcontexts. It is intended as a "trainer's toolkit" that can help deliver a wide range oftraining activities both inside and outside of the classroom
Mobile learning is not about delivering content to mobile devices but, instead, about the processes of coming to know and being able to operate successfully in, and across, new and ever changing contexts and learning spaces. And, it is about understanding and knowing how to utilise our everyday life-worlds as learning spaces. Therefore mobile learning is not primarily about technology.
Modern smart mobile devices offer media-rich and context-aware features that are highly useful for
electronic-health (e-health) applications. It is therefore not surprising that these devices have gained
acceptance as target devices for e-health applications, turning them into m-health (mobile-health) apps.
In particular, many e-health application developers have chosen Apple's iOS mobile devices such as iPad,
iPhone, or iPod Touch as the target device to provide more convenient and richer user experience, as
evidenced by the rapidly increasing number of m-health apps in Apple's App Store. In this paper, the top
two hundred of such apps from the App Store were examined from a developer's perspective to provide
a focused overview of the status and trends of iOS m-health apps and an analysis of related technology,
architecture, and user interface design issues. The top 200 apps were classified into different groups
according to their purposes, functions, and user satisfaction. It was shown that although the biggest
group of apps was medical information reference apps that were delivered from or related to medical
articles, websites, or journals, mobile users disproportionally favored tracking tools. It was clear that
m-health apps still had plenty of room to grow to take full advantage of unique mobile platform features
and truly fulfill their potential. In particular, introduction of two- or three-dimensional visualization and
context-awareness could further enhance m-health app's usability and utility. This paper aims to serve
as a reference point and guide for developers and practitioners interested in using iOS as a platform for
m-health applications, particular from the technical point of view.