Date: 11/15/2010

2 reasons for hideous download of M-Learn content - Trifonova

Hoarding is highly needed in the m-learning context for two main reasons. On the first place is the demand to support what is called "any-time, any-place" education. This means that on the mobile device (e.g. a PDA the kind of device often used in m-learning), which might be often disconnected from the Internet, the needed learning content should be available locally for allowing access during the offline periods. [Comments: Free wifi is not available anywhere. Internet access via 3G or GPRS could be rather expensive if the file size is big. Although free wifi is available, there could be too many concurrent users thus lowering the download speed. Hence, either hideous download (what Anna Trifonova named as hoarding) or intentional download of learning content is essential for offline mobile learning at anytime anywhere.] On the second place comes the desire to hide from the student the technologies that lie behind this ubiquitous learning.

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