Answer: Taking advantage of these new mediums and exploiting them to their full potential. The challenge is getting people to think outside of the education box. The development and deployment of MOOCs today is similar to when movies were first made. If you look at films from the 1920s and 30s, you'll notice that films were presented as stage productions. Example, the Marx Brother's film "Duck Soup."

Eventually, in the 1940s, filmmakers started to see movies as its own medium that wasn't confined to the limitations of stage productions. That's when we start to see Film Noir, then "Citizen Cain" with its revolutionary camera angles, and after that, Alfred Hitchcock's cinematic formulas of filming 2-person scenes.

In the same respect, on-line courses are still treating the medium like a typical classroom; Teacher lectures, go home and read textbook. But we don't need to do that anymore. MOOCs can be designed for multiple educational delivery methods. They can be developed to be adjustable to multiple learning styles and to add assistive devices to neutralize the disadvantages of the learning disabled. We have the technology to create and deliver multimedia entertainment to promote passive learning and reinforce society as a whole to become life-long learners.

Unfortunately, the people who have the companies, the political power and/or access to the money needed to develop education in this manner don't see the big picture yet. They don't see the full potential of MOOCs. It's very difficult to convince people who have been doing the same things in the same way for decades, that they need to change. What's more, before you can show the potential of alternative educational delivery methods, you first have to get past the HR department of the companies that have the infrastructure and resources to develop MOOCs. The typical HR department is limited by the specific requests of the departments in their company. The problem is, they don't know what they don't know, and can't tell their HR people to hire someone with the specific qualifications to create a delivery method they don't know they need.

Hope this answer helps.

Answer: Taking advantage of these new mediums and exploiting them to their full potential. The challenge is getting people to think outside of the education box. The development and deployment of MOOCs today is similar to when movies were first made. If you look at films from the 1920s and 30s, you'll notice that films were presented as stage productions. Example, the Marx Brother's film "Duck Soup."

Eventually, in the 1940s, filmmakers started to see movies as its own medium that wasn't confined to the limitations of stage productions. That's when we start to see Film Noir, then "Citizen Cain" with its revolutionary camera angles, and after that, Alfred Hitchcock's cinematic formulas of filming 2-person scenes.

In the same respect, on-line courses are still treating the medium like a typical classroom; Teacher lectures, go home and read textbook. But we don't need to do that anymore. MOOCs can be designed for multiple educational delivery methods. They can be developed to be adjustable to multiple learning styles and to add assistive devices to neutralize the disadvantages of the learning disabled. We have the technology to create and deliver multimedia entertainment to promote passive learning and reinforce society as a whole to become life-long learners.

Unfortunately, the people who have the companies, the political power and/or access to the money needed to develop education in this manner don't see the big picture yet. They don't see the full potential of MOOCs. It's very difficult to convince people who have been doing the same things in the same way for decades, that they need to change. What's more, before you can show the potential of alternative educational delivery methods, you first have to get past the HR department of the companies that have the infrastructure and resources to develop MOOCs. The typical HR department is limited by the specific requests of the departments in their company. The problem is, they don't know what they don't know, and can't tell their HR people to hire someone with the specific qualifications to create a delivery method they don't know they need.

Hope this answer helps.

I second Michelle that mobile is a different medium. To provide an example from my own discipline, we have been investigating how to practice programming on mobile touch devices. Physical challenges related to the screen size and lack of proper keyboard are obvious. In addition, the way how mobile devices are often used differs from, lets say, how desktop computers are used to go through online study material.

Thus, to enable sporadic learning sessions, we have decided to provide short independent exercises easy to use with mobile devices. At least this makes it easier to use mobile devices for learning but we have not evaluated this yet.

the following article might be helpful. It may not highlight the learning related issues, but highlights the mobile cloud computing issues in detail

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256181993_A_Survey_of_Mobile_Cloud_Computing_Application_Models

Article A Survey of Mobile Cloud Computing Application Models

Dear Michelle Linder ,

Dear Petri Ihantola,

and dear Atta ur Rehman Khan,

Thank you so much for your interest and answers,

I believe that education needs innovation and creativity to come out with new ways of learning and a substantial improvement in the teaching process. So do you think that augmented reality-mobile learning is what we need for transoforming and revolutionizing the way education is delivered ?!!

In my opinion:

"The big challenge now remains 'behavior change' or man-machine contact. Yet these devices are seen as elements with limitations "

In the m-learning mode, it takes a special meaning methodology has been called flexible or open learning education. This learning methodology places special emphasis on the active role and responsibility of the students to whom it is directed training. In this sense, the construction of knowledge and skills development is personal responsibility of forms.

Based on this view, are especially important learning theories from which the idea of constructivism is defended, collaborative learning, situated learning and connectivism is a theory for digital learning .

We must be attentive to leverage these media and find out more about ways to use the technologies and teaching methodologies - mobile learning, focusing on the particular needs of the volatile society that leads us to a new educational trend.

I think the use of Cloud Computing to store and process some kind of work, and send the results to the mobile device is a good initial point.

Virtual Learning Environment, such as Moodle, could use this kind of architecture.

If the application is built as a "real" mobile application, developed with Android ou IoS for example, this application could access the cloud to send and receive information.

A good point is to study the workload to be applied on the application..