Mobile Learning for Expanding Educational Opportunities

04-02-2006 - A new publication examines the potential of information and communication technologies (ICT) to expand educational opportunities and accelerate national socio-economic development in the Asia and Pacific Region. It looks closely at how devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), laptops, Pocket PCs, and mobile phones can be utilized as mobile learning (m-learning) tools to provide interactive content in previously unreachable and remote locations.

Many nations have developed e-learning and m-learning strategies, and are rapidly expanding the use and knowledge of ICT in educational activities by incorporating ICT into lesson plans, teaching methodologies and curricula, and devoting funds to procuring ICT-related resources. However, successful implementation of e-learning and m-learning programmes involves careful planning, and also faces an array of challenges.

This publication draws from the International Workshop on Mobile Learning for Expanding Educational Opportunities, which took place on 16-20 May 2005 in Tokyo, Japan.

Related Links

• Mobile Learning for Expanding Educational Opportunities
  
  
• Workshop on mobile learning
  Learn more about the workshop that took place on 16-20 May 2005 in Tokyo, Japan.
  
• ICT in Education in Asia and the Pacific
  Browse UNESCO’s Bangkok’s regional website on ICTs in Education.
  
• Promoting interactive e-Learning in Africa
  Find out what UNESCO is doing in the field of e-learning in other Regions.
  
• Bangkok Field Office
  The Bangkok office promotes UNESCO activities in Thailand, Myanmar and Lao PDR and indirectly supports UNESCO country offices in Viet Nam and Cambodia. At the same time, it serves as the Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education.