Introduction to E-Learning system and development of Mobile-based E-learning system for naïve users

In the beginning of this century, there were around 100 million children out of school who needed to be educated as per the Dakar conference (UNESCO). Reaching them with just 60 million teachers was practically impossible. Even with the efforts of increasing the enrolment rate, as per UNESCO's 2009 findings, there are still 67 million children of primary school age and another 72 million children of lower secondary school age still out of school and the process is slowing down. There needs to be a feasible way for education to reach every uneducated child in the world. With the world moving in the 21st century, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) seems to be the only answer to this problem. While recognizing the potential value of ICT in education, many countries face significant challenges in transforming the promises of technology into tangible benefits for learning. Many of these challenges are related to costs or infrastructural and technical issues, such as lack of access to technology or poor connectivity. This is particularly the case in low- income countries. Other barriers include the lack of relevant content in a language understood by the user and limited access to open education resources. In this paper, we discuss details on E-learning and propose a prototype model of Mobile-based learning for naïve users using Microsoft's Dot Net technology with Unicode character set.