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Potential of Cost-Effective Mobile Learning in Resource and Bandwidth Constrained Environments

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  • Michael P.J. Mahenge

    (Sokoine University of Agriculture, Centre for Information and Communication Technology, Tanzania)

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E-learning has received significant research attention over years in order to ensure reliability, availability and cost-effectiveness through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The evolvement of mobile computing devices especially smartphones brings prospects in overcoming the inherent limitations of the Internet when accessing contents on web. Among the potential opportunity revealed includes the ability to work offline. Therefore, this study aims at analyzing the existing online and offline electronic-learning systems in order to explore the uniqueness, technical problems and opportunities in this field. Similarly, this study proposes synchronization and caching solution for cost-effective electronic-learning content delivery. The proposed approach synchronizes contents from the remote servers to local database in mobile computing devices for offline use. It therefore contributes to reliability, cost-effectiveness, timely and increase motivation in learning activities.

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  • Michael P.J. Mahenge, 2017. "Potential of Cost-Effective Mobile Learning in Resource and Bandwidth Constrained Environments," International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development (IJICTHD), IGI Global, vol. 9(1), pages 1-14, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jicthd:v:9:y:2017:i:1:p:1-14
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