As mobile market penetration grows across Africa and “mobile” because more ubiquitous, mobile learning is gaining ground. Mobile learning, also known as m-learning, is simply the delivery of learning over mobile platforms. Earth-shattering? No. Essential to delivering education in Africa? Yes.

Says Elliott Masie, visionary for the Masie Institute: “Mobile devices will evolve to be the primary computing device in the Third World, as well as in the Second and First Worlds, over the next four years.”