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"Mobile Technologies in Lifelong Learning: best practices", is a one year project funded by the European Commission. The key concepts in MOTILL are Lifelong Learning and Mobile Technologies. The MOTILL project investigates how these technologies may impact on the diffusion of a social model where learning and knowledge are accessible to all, regardless of social and economic background, age, gender, religion, ethnicity or disability

The London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG) brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of researchers from the fields of cultural and media studies, sociology, (social) semiotics, pedagogy, educational technology, work-based learning and learning design. The group has developed a theoretical and conceptual framework for mobile learning around the notion of cultural ecology. The analytical engagement with mobile learning of the group takes the shape of a conceptual model in which educational uses of mobile technologies are viewed in ecological terms as part of a cultural and pedagogical context in transformation.

'MyMobile: Education on the move' responds to the current trend toward individualisation in mobile and network communication. It reacts to today's socio-cultural and technological developments, in which computers, laptops and mobile phones provide ubiquitous individual access to communication, entertainment, shopping, internet, media offerings or knowledge archives. However, dispositions to and egrees of access differ greatly. Considering the dynamic development of the smartphone sector and e-learning, there is an urgent need for a constructive response in adult education toward enabling specific target groups to participate in the digital world.

This issue of Journal for Computer Assisted Learning compiles a selection of insightful papers and research on the impact of mobile technology on literacy. The effect of text messaging on children's reading and spelling abilities has received particular media attention. Yet despite fears that the use of abbreviations can undermine reading and writing skills, recent research has shown that extra exposure to word composition outside of school can actually improve literacy.

Mobile internet refers to online access that occurs wirelessly using a handheld device or laptop computer. Read a summary of Pew Internet's mobile research.

Industry Fellow Carly Shuler draws on interviews with mobile learning experts as well as current research and industry trends to illustrate how mobile devices might be more broadly used for learning. Examining more than 25 handheld learning products and research projects in the U.S.

Web site of the Motill project - Mobile Technologies in Lifelong Learning