Contemporary Issues In Education Research – Third Quarter 2014 Volume 7, Number 3
Copyright by author(s); CC-BY 171 The Clute Institute
Technology And Online Education:
Models For Change
Catherine W. Cook, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Christian Sonnenberg, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
ABSTRACT
This paper contends that technology changes advance online education. A number of mobile
computing and transformative technologies will be examined and incorporated into a descriptive
study. The object of the study will be to design innovative mobile awareness models seeking to
understand technology changes for mobile devices and how they can be used for online learning.
These models will take information from technology vicissitudes, online education systems, along
with mobile device literature, and build a picture of past, current, and future trends for online
learning. The application of such an approach should lead to a better definition of mobile
awareness requirements and greater online visibility relative to selection of the appropriate model
criteria and requirements. The models will identify online problem definitions, hardware and
software advancements, analysis mobile objectives, and the selection of evaluation criteria and
requirements to design online mobile awareness. By using technology vicissitudes, online
education systems, and mobile device variables that are found in the literature, models can be
designed to achieve awareness for online learning and changing technologies. These futuristic
models can help to identify the appropriate techniques and methods to be used in facilitating the
overall effort in future mobile devices f