research

A March 2011 report from Bersin & Associates, entitled "m-Learning: Mobile Learning is Finally Going Mainstream - And It is Bigger Than You Might Think:"

 * Use of mobile devices for learning has risen from 9 percent of U.S.-based organizations in 2007 to an estimated 20 percent or more in 2010.
 * More than a quarter of the world's population now uses a mobile device and frequent mobile Internet use has almost doubled in the past year, according to the study.
 * The research report also notes that the informal uses for m-learning vastly outnumber the formal, and that these new applications increasingly empower today's workers to access the information they need on demand.

Additional research, reports, and resources:

 * Virginia's Beyond Textbooks pilot, year-one report