MOBILE E-LEARNING Support Services Case Study

Currently mobile devices and wireless communications are present in the daily tasks, of our lives. m-Learning extends the e-Learning concept by the use of mobile computation and communication technological resources. Mobile computing focuses the paradigm of "anytime, anywhere access" that offers resources for distance education via mobile devices. This paradigm, allow that information is made available to users with greater flexibility and diversity, supporting learning in non conventional places and time schedules. The need for learning throughout life and flexibility of education profiles requires the support and development of new approaches in the educational context and tools to support learning. This paper presents a distance learning case study at Polytechnic Institute of Leiria. The main objective is the utilization of mobile devices as support tools for course information/contents resources access available in Learning Management Systems (in the presented case study - Moodle).