The exponential growth of mobile technology in recent years, increasing availability of network infrastructures, advances in wireless technologies and popularity of handheld devices, have opened up new accessibility opportunities for education. In his research Kinshuk (2003), [2], concludes that the true potential of e-learning as "anytime and anywhere" has finally started to be realized with the advent of mobile learning, m-learning. A characteristic of today's society is the increasing use of modern information and communication technologies in all areas. Investment in mobile device is an important step to improve the quality of life in our dynamic society.
The paper analyses the impact of m-learning on the educational process and describes software characteristics of m-learning applications. There are taken into consideration the fields that define m-learning processes as education, technology and software development. For the evaluation of characteristics levels are described metrics and measured values are used to determine the m-learning application overall quality level. The value is determined by aggregating each factor value and taking into consideration importance coefficient.
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