Chapter 1Enterprise Mobile LearningA Primer

Gary Woodill and Chad Udell

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Although people have been learning while mobile for millennia, what we mean by “mobile learning” is the ability to move from place to place while using mobile devices to receive from and contribute to a variety of digital information sources. While a large variety of lightweight devices can be used in mobile learning, the important part of this definition is that the learner is mobile and not confined to a specific location.

As a society, we’ve become much more mobile, both as individuals and as groups, than people who lived only a few decades ago. We are nomads, often ...

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