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M-Learning: Visible Approach for Invisible World

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With 16 % of the world’s population, India is today the second largest populated country in the world. Future trends in global population growth could be significantly affected by improvements in both the quality and quantity of education, particularly female education. According to the UNESCO Report on Education in the twenty-first century, higher education is the mandate to bridge the knowledge gap between countries and communities, enriching dialogues between people and culture, and international linking and networking of ideas, research, and technologies. On 2011 enrollment was only 207 lakhs for higher level. We can not supposed to education for all because a huge population is still not able to reach basic education. Huge populations have mobile access in India. In India, total number of rural subscribers is 311.33 million in October 2014. Indian rural people are advanced in technology and there is a need to facilitate mobile as a learning tool. It has required a great motivation to achieve this target. In the future, we will witness mobile phones, computers, and various other computing/media devices (iPods, Digital Cameras, PDAs, etc.) we use converge into a single personal mobile computing device. At such a time, the differentiation between eLearning and m-learning will cease to exist; all learning will be electronic and mobile. Therefore, there is tremendous potential for the growth of mobile learning even in the invisible world.

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Pandey, K. (2015). M-Learning: Visible Approach for Invisible World. In: Zhang, Y. (eds) Handbook of Mobile Teaching and Learning. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41981-2_26-1

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