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Novel Education Pattern Applied to Global Crowd of all Ages: Mobile Education

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This paper gives a detail that introduces about mobile education. Firstly, this article provides an overview of mobile education. Secondly, this paper introduces the mobile education application framework in the education industry. At present, it is accepted and can be utilized in many ways in the education industry. Through the review of this paper, these factors have prompted to further research due to its potential in making teaching and learning more attractive and promising. Further, the relation and differences between mobile education and traditional education are put forth. Finally, users of mobile education are also studied. This article reveals in mobile education that the need for usage of technologies increases day by day today when information and accession to information gain importance. In fact, mobile devices are smaller and smaller. Technologies of mobile education provide a chance of lifelong learning for people.

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    Jing Zhang

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Zhang, J. (2015). Novel Education Pattern Applied to Global Crowd of all Ages: Mobile Education. In: Zhang, Y. (eds) Handbook of Mobile Teaching and Learning. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54146-9_50

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