Promoting mobile learning through the establishment of a mobile learning community

With the fast development of mobile technologies, mobile learning has been adopted by more and more students and staff in higher education institutions. This chapter reports on a project which aimed to promote mobile learning in higher education. In order to find out students’ and teachers’ experiences and perceptions of mobile learning in a tertiary institution in Hong Kong, over 100 students and around 50 staff members across different disciplines were surveyed online, and follow-up interviews were carried out. The research findings suggest that both students and staff were generally positive towards mobile learning. Based on the findings, students and staff were invited to form a mobile learning community and share their mobile learning or mobile-assisted teaching experiences through various activities, such as writing app reviews, compiling mobile learning e-portfolios, participating in sharing sessions and offering seminars about mobile learning. To facilitate sharing among community members, a website titled ‘Mobile Learning @ EdUHK’ has been created to showcase good practices of mobile learning. The framework of creating and maintaining a substantial Mobile Learning Community (MLC) will be summarised. It is hoped that our study will shed some light on how mobile learning can be promoted effectively in higher education institutions. Copyright © 2019 inScience Press.