Abstract

The aim of this study is to discuss the mobile learning, for we know that mobile learning now a days play an important role in education and learning, most of people all over the world nowadays using smart mobile phone, PDAs through wireless mobile technology anywhere and at anytime, each new generation of mobile has new features and applications, the usage of mobile devices are continually increasing, one of these usage within last decades is Mobile learning, people learn material from different locations and sources and the freely control their on learning by choosing what they want to learn and what time and what source, many work have been done in the area of mobile learning and it consider to be one of the future learning techniques, this study discusses the general concept of mobile learning and the proposed works and the effective of M-learning in the life, discuss the essential role of mobile learning process and then it will investigate the Comparison between mobile learning and other types of learning. And also we will discuss witch evaluation and selection criteria of M-learning applications are being used and then we will investigate if the criteria used by the users are enough or we need more criteria to insure the usability of the M-learning application according to the Human Computer Interaction theories (HCI) and ISO standards.

Keywords:

Computer interface, e-learning objects, mobile applications, mobile learning, social constructivism, student engagement,

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