EDUCAUSE Review Articles, Handheld and Mobile Computing, and Wireless Technology

The author points out the positives and negatives to students having internet and computer access during class.

Focusing on "pioneering," the EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee looked at six technologies and trends—Web 2.0 applications, cell phones, vortals, podcasting, open-source learning management systems, and wireless—and considered how higher education institutions can prepare not only for this rich content but also for that yet to come.

With mobile networks and services in the United States at the beginning of broadband and broad-scale adoption, mobile learning represents the next step in a long tradition of technology-mediated learning. The good news is that many of the antecedents of mobile learning have prepared us for the journey ahead.