M-learning in Malaysia: Challenges and Strategies

Adoption of electronic learning (e-learning) is not new in today's education system. In the realm of tertiary education, the requirement for online learning is of great relevance in line with the society needs to have tertiary education due to the constraint of campus capacity. This needs to the emergence of more friendly e-learning which is more compatible to any electronic devices and more mobile. In the general case mobile learning (m-learning) can be defined as any form of teaching and learning that happens when the users is interacting through a mobile device such as PDA, palmtop, i phone, handheld computers, smart phone or other gadgets. Malaysia should be considered ready to move on to wireless era where more and more areas especially in campus, have been already provided with wi-fi services. This paper is an effort to discuss challenges and strategies in implementing Mobile learning (m-learning) in Malaysia, with reference to some experiences among selected countries.