Cross-cultural Usability Issues in E/M-Learning
It addresses usability problems for learners and educators in diverse cultural contexts, but is incremental as it provides an overview without new solutions.
The paper examines cross-cultural usability issues in electronic and mobile learning, comparing different learning models and discussing benefits and security concerns, but does not present specific results or numbers.
This paper gives an overview of electronic learning (E-Learning) and mobile learning (M-Learning) adoption and diffusion trends, as well as their particular traits, characteristics and issues, especially in terms of cross-cultural and universal usability. E-Learning and M-Learning models using web services and cloud computing, as well as associated security concerns are all addressed. The benefits and enhancements that accrue from using mobile and other internet devices for the purposes of learning in academia are discussed. The differences between traditional classroom-based learning, distance learning, E-Learning and M-Learning models are compared and some conclusions are drawn.