If appropriately facilitated, mobile learning (m-Learning) can benefit learners by providing instructional materials and interaction through their mobile devices wherever and whenever they need it.
Tip 1
Information to be displayed on m-learning devices should be chunked into between five and nine meaningful units to compensate for the limited capacity of short-term memory and the limitation of the display device.
Tip 2
Rather than being presented in a textual format, the information should be organised in the form of a concept map or a network that shows the important concepts and the relationship between the concepts.
Tip 3
Pre-instructional strategies should be used to allow learners to store the framework of the lesson. This is critical for m-learning since information will be presented in pieces and learners will need to use the general framework to integrate the pieces.
Tip 4
Learning materials need to use multimedia strategies that are information-rich rather than textual strategies. As a result, the writing style has to change from textual writing to a greater use of visuals, photographs, videos and audio.
Tip 5
Intelligent agents should be used in m-learning systems so that most of the work is done behind the scene, minimising the input needed from learners and the amount of information presented on the display of the mobile devices.
Whether you choose to exclude the connectivity from your classroom or to include it, there exists the potential for creating learning communities.
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