Integrated Platform for Mobile Learning

Today, technological trends in informatics and telecommunications are behind a new change in educational service provision—from e-learning to mobile learning (m-learning). Mobile devices provide users with opportunities to communicate and access information, learning content and services everywhere, at any time. However, many challenges to the rapid uptake of m-learning are identified by scholars—some of them related to the choice of devices suitable for m-learning and others—focused on the design of the courses and lecture modules so as to be accessible at various mobile devices. This chapter’s main goal is to present the approach proposed for m-learning at Sofia University. It provides initially a brief overview of recent technology background and the trends in distance education leading to the m-learning concept. Some approaches proposed by scholars for m-learning systems are presented as well. The usage of tablets in the educational process gains particular attention and the need for using different types of content in learning—text, audio, and video. This chapter presents an idea how to organize m-learning and, in particular, which learning styles are appropriate with a tablet. Finally, it considers a platform providing opportunities to students to diversify learning according to their own needs using text, audio, and video educational materials.