Creating and delivering learning materials for mobile phones - Our findings in Japan

Abstract

With increasing permeation of mobile devices into people's everyday life, m-learning can be regarded as the next generation of e-learning. Learning via mobile devices, especially mobile phones, is practiced in educational areas all over the world. This paper describes a mobile language learning project which creates English learning materials and delivers the learning materials to Japanese university students. The data collected from this ongoing mobile language learning project allows us to investigate Japanese students' mobile learning styles and learning material preferences as well as their concerns about using mobile learning. The data was collected from various sources: online surveys, server logs, user registered personal information, interviews and actual online quiz results. The findings obtained from this research provide useful information for future mobile learning project/system design, implementation and content delivery. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.