ABSTRACT
Education paradigms are shifting. In many instances, online and blended learning solutions are part of the learning environment. Mobile technologies are beginning to feature in this mix. The use of personal, wireless, mobile, portable and handheld devices has increased dramatically from small-scale, short-term trials to larger, more sustained and blended deployment (Traxler, 2009). The growth in use of mobile devices is followed by widespread usage of apps, changing the way people communicate and access information:
Smartphones including the iPhone and Android have redefined what we mean by mobile computing, and in the past three to four years, the small, often simple, low cost software extensions to these devices—apps—have become a hotbed of development.
(Johnson, Adams, & Cummins, 2012, p. 10)