The purpose of this article is to reflect on and understand the position of mobile learning in higher education. It also
hopes to develop a succinct definition applicable in the context of university and college education. The bulk of this
article is primarily an analysis of the literature about mobile learning. It sets out to critically examine a selection of
documents that relate to mobile learning. These documents consist of conferences proceedings, journal articles,
reports, projects and pilot studies of mobile learning projects. Nieuwenhuis (2007, p. 82) shows how such texts can
shed some light on the phenomenon under investigation. It was therefore necessary to read and reflect on all these
documents, to draw conclusions about issues around mobile learning. This approach allowed the authors to identify
relationships and connections between the ideas and information from the literature, and explicate existing
relationships between theory and practice in the field of mobile learning.