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Saturday, June 18, 2005
Why mobile e-learning fails to make a move -Eric Wilson, SMH
Australia's telecommunications companies are stifling the economic benefits of mobile e-learning (m-learning). Dr Marcus Bowles, director of the Institute for Working Futures, says the incumbents are defending market share by confining mobile data transmissions to high-cost cellular networks. This is being accomplished using clever marketing and interconnected blocking of cheaper technologies. "They say mobile is the cellular network," Dr Bowles says. "That's a big misconception. There's the cellular network, wireless network and satellite technology. The misconception is it's all going to happen over the cellular network. There are extremely viable options beyond the mobile phone but there's a lot of ignorance about it." Dr Bowles' interest comes from a belief in m-learning, which he defines as the ability to perform training and assessment tasks using any device connected to any network.
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