Surveying Mobile Learning Around the World (part one)
About four years ago, the World Bank’s infoDev program secured funding to do a ‘global survey of the use of mobile phones in education in developing countries’, based on the belief that the increasing availability of the small, connected computing devices more commonly known as ‘mobile phones’ was going to have increasing relevance to school systems around the world. For a variety of reasons — including regrettable internal bureaucratic delays and, more fundamentally, the fact that, when we looked around at what was actually happening on the ground in most of the world, not much was actually going on (yet), and so we concluded that a global survey of expert thought of the potential future relevance of the use of mobile phone in education wouldn’t yet be terribly useful — we ended up scrapping this research project, hoping that others would pursue similar work when the time was ripe.
EduTech: World Bank
