A study of the perceptions using Mobile Learning in Higher Education in Hong Kong - the end of textbooks, the rise ofcollaborative tools

摘要

A study of the use of mobile learning with a group of higher education students in Hong Kong in Jun 2010 reveals that mobile learning is considered to be an effective method for learning and can facilitate new learning content to be constructed. All the participants of the study agree that sharing-editingcollecting is much quicker when Mobile Learning and Web 2.0 are used in combination and no one disagree that Mobile Learning and Web 2.0 can facilitate learning anywhere. With 58% willing to read textbooks using mobile devices like iPad and tablet-like eReaders, the textbook industry is facing a different challenge from the increasing use of collaborative web 2.0 applications for learning.