Note: This is a cross-post from a guest blog post I authored for Next Gen Learning Challenges.

Mobile devices, like cellphone, smart phones, and tablets, stand to make significant changes in the ways in which teaching and learning can happen. But there are some significant obstacles that have the potential to make mobile learning’s impact nearly nill. Here’s five reasons that mobile won’t matter.

In a few presentations I’ve given, I have mentioned that I sometimes require students to write blog posts. For example, in my graduate course on elearning and project management, my Masters and doctoral students write posts on specific topics. I’ve had audience members sometimes come up to me afterward and ask me about the requirements I use with these posts, and I usually provide some general guidelines for them. However, I decided I would go ahead and list here what my requirements are, so everyone can see how I try to encourage blog posts to receive comments.

I am concerned that mLearning is headed down a similar path to eLearning. The saying, “There’s an app for that,” seems to reflect this sentiment that all mlearning is equal. No matter what you’re trying to teach or how you’re trying to teach there seems to “an app for that,” and mlearning is what we’re going to call it. And this is where I think we start to mash-up the meaning (pun intended).