Mobile learning has revolutionary potential by Johanna Absalom

A study to identify and explore how mobile technology can be used as a step towards providing high-speed learning, is being conducted by a Namibian student.

Photo: The Namibia Economist

Tutaleni Asino, a PHD candidate in Instructional Systems and Comparative International Education at Pennsylvania State University in the USA, is conducting a study entitled “Adopting mLearning applications in education: The experience of Namibian students and teachers.”
According to Asino, the research focuses on the many ways in which mobile devices including phones, tablet computers, iPods and MP3 players can be used for learning as well as to improve education.

“Technology is changing at a rapid pace and many small portable devices are as, or more powerful, than some of the computers that sit on desks at schools or in offices. It’s exciting for me to imagine what type of things we can do with that power and how we can re-envision education to include some of these technologies for the betterment of our country,” he said.

He is also conducting a complimentary study titled “Exploring students’ experience with the iPod” that involves using a phone to learn science concepts.
The study is funded by the Africana Research Centre Department and the Comparative International Education programme at Penn State.
Asino plans to present the research results during May and August 2012 at some of the schools in the northern part of Namibia.
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Source: The Namibia Economist