KUALA LUMPUR: Handphones will soon play a more important role than it already has — to serve learning needs.

In the near future, Open University Malaysia (OUM) students can get snippets of their course modules on demand through SMS, courtesy of mobile learning (m-learning).

LTT Global Communication chairman Maimun Shamsuddin said m-learning was different from other forms of learning, such as its ability to operate in places without Internet connection.

"M-learning could become a global open university for all to participate in," she said. OUM president Prof Tan Sri Anuwar Ali said it was important to utilise m-learning due to the ever increasing availability of wireless portable devices.

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