Trends in e-Learning: Impacts of Social Mobile Technologies on Information Behavior, Formal Learning and the Educational Market

Abstract

Social and mobile technologies are catalysts for significant changes in e-learning. Their effects develop during the process of the diffusion and adaption of these technologies on different social levels: individual (micro level), organizational (meso level) and markets/society (macro level). This paper reports on the impacts of social and mobile technologies on learning related individual information behavior, formal teaching scenarios and the educational market as a whole. Thus, the reader obtains a holistic picture of technology based influences on learning.