M-learning: Connecting Teaching and Learning Inside and Outside of School

Abstract

The educational use of mobile devices, known as m-learning, is currently an alternative with great potential to address the crisis of the relevance of education as a social mechanism of the 21st century. To address this issue, a systematic literature review on m-learning was conducted, from which it was found that, depending on the use given to mobile devices, at least three types of learning experiences are generated. Additionally, we identified the main advantages of m-learning, its risks, fields of application, and current research focuses

El uso educativo de dispositivos móviles, conocido como m-learning, se presenta en la actualidad como una alternativa con gran potencial para abordar la crisis de pertinencia de la educación como mecanismo social de desarrollo en el siglo XXI. Para abordar este asunto, se condujo una revisión sistemática de literatura sobre m-learning, a partir de la cual se encontró que, dependiendo del uso dado a los dispositivos móviles se generan al menos tres tipos de experiencias de aprendizaje de naturaleza distinta. Adicionalmente, se identificaron las principales ventajas del m-learning, sus riesgos, ámbitos de aplicación y focos actuales de investigación.