The exploitation of technological advances in learning has result in an
exponential progress in this field through e-learning applications in the last
decade, and currently through the emergence of a new concept called mlearning.
M-learning is defined as the use of mobile technologies for
learning; m-learning must benefit from e-learning technological advances in
order to avoid reinventing the wheel. Nevertheless, M-learning, which is
characterized by the use of mobile devices, permits, for example, the
learners' mobility during their learning, and, as opposed to e-learning, allows
a continuous change of the context.
Moreover, m-learning faces some constraints caused by the use of its mobile
technologies such as the limited screen size, reduced energy, resolution
capacity and location change during an activity. Yet, there is an agreement
among most research laboratories interested in e- and m- learning on the
parallel use of these two learning environments.
The utilization of standards can offer pedagogical contents some structures
which facilitate the interchangeability between e- and m- learning. In order
to ensure the interoperability between E- and –M learning platforms and to
take into account the specificities of m-learning, we have adopted the
already existing standard LOM (Learning Object Metadata) and the
specification IMS LD (Interoperability Media Standards –Level Design). |