Mobile learning applications for technical vocational and engineering education: The use of competence snippets in laboratory courses and industry 4.0

This paper focuses on the facilitation of mobile learning processes in technical vocational and engineering education as well as its' integration in learning on the job scenarios of the industry 4.0. This includes the distribution of classical learning materials like texts, pictures, videos, or simulations, but, here, workplace-based learning environments are of particular importance. While electronic learning (e-Learning) is well known and broadly used in different kinds of education, this is not true for mobile learning (m-Learning), even though it offers new possibilities as a supplement beyond micro learning.