Some of these things, of course, are already happening.
The University of California in Berkeley recently
began posting entire lectures on YouTube and, of
course, YouTube content is accessible via mobile devices.
A lecturer at Bradford University in the UK early
last year went as far as abolishing traditional lectures
altogether in favour of podcasts, in his words “freeing up
more time for smaller group teaching”. And children
can learn to count, spell or even play guitar using Javabased
mobile games, downloadable from the Internet or
directly onto their phones via a carrier portal.