I read an interesting blog post this morning which shifted my thinking totally on mobile learning.  Ive always thought of mobile-learning or m-Learning as learning involving the mobile phone. Until now, when its like the lights were just turned on!

Donald Clark wrote about m-learning being learning that we do while on the move.  I love that definition.

For me at the moment Im doing a lot of learning while moving – podcasts and sermons are usually what I listen to while riding or running or travelling. They’re on an iPod though not on my mobile phone. My teenage kids learn what many of their friends are up to via mobile versions of The Facebook on their mobile phones – for them iPods are just for music!  Whenever I travel I see people using Kindles, iPods, phones (not making phone calls), books, documents….. all sorts of media.  Some of these folks are using that tool to enable them to learn something.

Im glad my mlearning definition was challenged – I think it’ll help me think broader than simply a mobile phone when it comes to developing learning experiences for people on the move.

For people living in isolated areas in some of the remotest locations in the world their learning is not much different to those in cities commuting or learning while we are on the move.

They have to contend with power issues, accessing learning material, require a mobile connection to the internet, have limits on data storage, and the learning material needs to be in a format they can access and interact with on a mobile device.

What’s mLearning for you?  Is it learning access and interactions with a mobile phone?  Something different?