Facilitating E-Learning through Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

The rapid and accelerating move towards the adoption and use of mobile technologies has increasingly provided students and teachers with the ability to study away from the classroom and on the move. Wireless and mobile technologies influence the evolution of current e-learning use and press forward the development of new mode of education enabling any time, anywhere and anyhow learning. New wireless technologies can be used to boost interactivity, thus helping create community, as people remain online even while going about their business. The use of wireless technology paves the way for a literal interpretation of mobile ubiquitous computing. People can get online, be reached, and interact anywhere and anytime. In this paper, we discuss a platform based on wireless technologies to support learning communities in university campuses and how it could be used to improve ubiquitous interactivity and cooperation among teachers and students. The requirements of modern e-learning techniques change. Aspects such as community interaction, flexibility, pervasive learning and increasing mobility in communication habits become more important. To meet these challenges e-learning platforms must provide support on mobile learning. Most approaches try to adopt centralized and static e-learning mechanisms to mobile devices. However, often technically it is not possible for all kinds of devices to be connected to a central server. Therefore we introduce an application of a mobile e-learning network which operates totally decentralized with the help of underlying ad hoc network architecture.