Open and Distance Learning for Sustainable Development

With the system problems as:
- Quality of Instruction
- Hidden Costs
- Misuse of Technology
- Role of Instructor
- Network/Equipment problem (Dong, 2002).
Expectation from mobile learners
Indiana University (2003: 1-6) identified the following as requirements from online distance
learners to include:
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- Time management
- Balancing responsibilities and Setting Priorities
- Managing Stress
Know your deadlines
Plan ahead
Ask for help and other resources
keep in touch with your instructor
- Understand expectation
- Become an active learner
- Develop self-discipline
- Set goals
- Ask for what you need
- Responding vs reacting
Conclusion
As the wave of technological development keeps on sweeping through every facet of human
endeavour through the use of mobile devices and other allied equipment, in the next few years the
mobile phone will be the primary source for radio and television signals as well as the link to up
to the minute information.
Mobile learning is the natural evolution of elearning, which completes a missing component of
the solution adding the wireless feature, or as a new stage of distance and e-learning. As learning
becomes more standardised, technology imposes this requirement and make accessible to all the
shared knowledge base to people who are geographically or nationally divided expands. Mlearning
will affect the concept of culture and civilisation, thus paving the way for the emergence
of a unified culture in learning naturally.