Mobile learning is a means of facilitating students’ education through personal electronic devices, most commonly smartphones. M-learning can involve making course content more accessible on devices (using PDFs for documents, for example), employing mobile-friendly learning management systems (LMSs) like Moodle or Canvas, or using survey or social media apps during lectures. This can sometimes require training faculty to understand how to better design their courses to be mobile-friendly. Good mobile design is actually just good course design,” says Margaret Merrill, an instructional designer and educational technologist at the University of California, Davis.
