Applying mobile trends in education: A mobile learning guideline

There are many technologies available to education enabling fast and easy access to knowledge. Technologies change rapidly so the opportunities and the challenges they bring. Changing nature of some technologies may have a great impact in education. The next big technology change in education is expected to be in mobile learning platform. The next coming years are expected to offer wide range of opportunities for mobile applications. As the mobile technology grows, there will be more practices of mobile learning in formal education. In order to be ready for the change, one should understand the context. In this paper, we provided a future projection to the mobile markets and the mobile applications and their implications in education. First, we analyzed the mobile trends in the market. Then, we provided an analysis of the latest status of related practices in education. Finally, we provided a guideline, which addresses the issue from a technological and pedagogical point of view, for directing future research and applications. Regarding to our guideline we also presented a list of recommendations.