Is mobile learning a necessary evil?: The goodness-of-fit of mobile learning situations

Many mobile learning (m-learning) systems have been promising that they would supersede current classroom or computer-based learning activities. This paper takes an exception to that approach, arguing that the formality of future learning experiences that m-learning can present may not ensure this vision as they stand. Instead, we see other goodness-of-fit of mobile learning as complemental learning experiences only in situated and social dimension. This paper thus suggests a practical direction of future m-learning rather than taking an approach of a solely independent learning environment.