Emerging concerns about quality of e-learning products and services animated a project in Canada to create quality standards that derived primarily from the needs of consumer, that could be used to guide the development and choice of e-learning at all levels of education and training, and that could be implemented in a simple manner. A set of quality standards were created to reflect best pract...

As mobile learning simultaneously employs both handheld computers and mobile telephones and other  devices  that  draw  on  the  same  set  of  functionalities,  it  throws  open  the  door  for  swift connection between learners  and teachers. This  study examined and articulated the impact of  the application of mobile devices for teaching English vocabulary items to 123 Iranian semi-illitera...

Mobile TV around the world uses various standards including MediaFLOTM, DVB-H, CMMB, ISDB-T, ISDB-Tb, DVB-SH and T-DMB. These various technologies have been deployed with differing levels of success and for different reasons. Some European markets have DVB-H deployments, ISDB-T is used in Japan, T-DMB in Korea and China is developing CMMB technology. The US market currently only has a commercia...

The discussions about learning management systems and reusable learning objects primarily focus on technical standardization issues. Standards such as SCORM or LTSC-LOM will yield benefits for content maintenance and exchange of learning objects between publishers, services providers, and technical platforms. Pedagogic questions, e.g., how standardized learning objects can be used to guide lear...

Research has demonstrated that mobile and wireless applications benefit from a knowledge of their operating environment. Examples of contextaware or adaptive applications have been constructed and evaluated with the results being widely disseminated within the research community. However, the field is still sufficiently new that there are currently no standards for describing, disseminating or ...