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5. Choice of Technology(i) Appropriate choice of technology in the implementation of m-learning projects will impact on the ROI and learningoutcomes.(ii) The knowledge transfer and adoption of emergingtechnologies, such as tablets is crucial to ensure a world classstandard of the education.(iii)Satellite technologies like the VSAT and other domesticservices can be very useful to Africa in terms of coverage andpricing competitiveness.6. Research and Innovation(i) Innovation and entrepreneurship in educational mobile apps.must be fostered via incubators and competitions.(ii)Local universities and applied research centres should comeup with commercial apps. for mobile education through astrong South-South collaboration with other Africanuniversities and centres of excellence. Such initiatives willundoubtedly generate low cost products for the Africancontinent.12
IntroductionMobile Learning often referred as m-learning is a very broad and multidisciplinary topicencompassing technology, education, society, economy and many more that need to beaddressed from diverse angles and perspectives. The ever changing landscape of theeducational sector in Africa and the needs in terms of delivery and support will pressureinstitutions and universities towards the use of mobile technology for sustainable andinnovative educational experience for students and teachers.The study presented in this report take into account recent advances, research findingsand success stories internationally and in the African continent with the aim to come upwith a Framework for the Implementation of Mobile Learning and Training.While remaining focused on the requirements of the terms of reference described earlier,this report encloses substantial amount of issues and information necessary towards apragmatic outcome and concrete answers to the objectives set. Part I answers to theobjectives: Explaining what mobile learning is; Presenting the current status of mobilelearning as well as latest research; Outlining the challenges faced by when designing andimplementing mobile learning. Part II relates to the objectives: Compiling advances,initiatives and applications in mobile learning. Part III responds to the objectives:Documenting case studies of how mobile learning is being used to teach and train indifferent places worldwide; and discuss the future of use mobile learning in education,training and informal settings.The scope of work is addressed in summary form in the sections Research Gaps &Directions, Best Practices and Recommendations. The report ends with a generalconclusion and appendices with facts and figures in mobile technology and m-learningdeployment.13
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3. M-learning projects in AfricaM-U
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Nearly 30% of All Africans Subscrib
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from the AMREF office. Other initia
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7. The KLIV projectThe KLIV Project
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10. Use of m-learning in Universiti
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The use of Podcasts by Universities
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was envisaged that the project woul
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Research Gaps & DirectionsIf we are
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Test Design Approaches: To figure w
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RecommendationsThe list of recommen
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A Framework for Mobile Learning and
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- Stakeholders (sub levels: learner
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- Academic support (sub levels: sup
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The first objective set for Part II
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Turkish Online Journal of Distance
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INSEAD, NOKIA, and ICUS formed an A
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the iPad).CalendarThe Calendar app
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Connections to "visualize a new kin
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TUSK is a "dynamic multimedia knowl
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References4G: The Future Mobile Tec
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For the state of the art report Con
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Attewell, J. (2005). From research
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