Educators and designers should addr

Educators and designers should address the needs of learners in this age of wireless communication and connectedness. Slogans such as “walk and use”, “walk and talk”, “just for me” and “just in time” usher in the new phrases in education like “You ring, we bring” ushered in previous developments in society. Instructional theory in this mobile age should be learner-centric rather than technology- or teacher-centric. This is because, as Uden (2007)
oberves: “Mobile technologies offer new opportunities for students' educational activities in that they can be used across different locations and times”. Students using mobile technologies are not only remote from their instructors;they also fully control the access of information on their mobile devices. In this light,, one of the main advantages of mobile learning is that it allows this generation of learners to enjoy a certain amount of freedom and independence