mLearning: Mobile Learning and Performance in the Palm of Your Hand

PAN

Now that we’ve taken a look at the local area network, let’s explore what happens just in your office space—or within the area of a small, tightly constrained domain, maybe feet from your person as you’re traveling. This phenomenon has been dubbed a PAN, or a personal area network, and encompasses many of the tools in your office setting as well as devices that might need to interconnect while you’re traveling. A good example is a cell phone, which can be connected by a Bluetooth technology to be able to send data, whether it’s an address book or schedules or otherwise, between your phone and your laptop. Other examples might be the interconnection of using a cell phone as a modem via Bluetooth or infrared type communications back to a laptop, ...