A new paper out of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (Vol 11, No 1 (2010), ISSN: 1492-3831) by John-Harmen Valk, Ahmed T. Rashid, and Laurent Elder finds that mobile devices do indeed have an impact in the developing world by enabling increased access and flexibility that allow students to achieve results that are comparable to traditional methods. The study also finds that there are barriers in terms of cost, infrastructure and language in some environments.
Now even though this work was done in the developing world, is it really that hard to think that similar impacts wouldn’t be seen in the developed world where barriers to education also exist?
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