Addressing the cost barriers to mobile learning in higher education

Educational content delivery: An experimental study assessing student preference for multimedia content when monetary cost is involved

“…One of the most important problems in the widespread adoption of mobile learning is the cost of delivery of educational content [1]. Accessing mobile data is still more expensive than accessing information via personal computers (PCs).…”

“…These results reflect a preference towards the low multimedia quality clip, even though the subjects know they have a lower quality. This preference could be explained by the price of mobile Internet that is too high [1,3,5,8,10]. In the last phase, the subjects were given information about the price they need to pay if they exceeded the quantity of data included in the bundle.…”

“…The cost of transmission over mobile networks is considered to be one of the key factors hindering the adoption of mobile devices [1]. Also, accessing the content offline may not always be possible due to the fact that mobile devices have a limited amount of memory.…”

A synthesis of mobile learning literature in education, business, and medicine

“…A paper by Dyson, Raban, Litchfield, and Lawrence (2009) The main challenges to the widespread adoption ofm-learning in education were listed as usage charges billed by telecommunications providers for both students and institutions, the price of mobile hardware for students and institutions, the price of mlearning software for institutions, and the cost of establishing and maintaining institutional wireless networks for institutions. Another challenge was that although most universities have established their own wireless networks built for laptop computers, often the networks are not compatible with some mobile devices.…”