International Journal of
Information and Education Technology

Abstract—Social and mobile technologies are catalysts for significant changes in e-learning. Their effects develop during the process of the diffusion and adaption of these technologies on different social levels: individual (micro level), organizational (meso level) and markets/society (macro level). This paper reports on the impacts of social and mobile technologies on learning related individual information behavior, formal teaching scenarios and the educational market as a whole. Thus, the reader obtains a holistic picture of technology based influences on learning.

Index Terms—Social and mobile technologies, information behavior, formal learning, educational market.

Joachim Griesbaum is with the Department of Information Science and Natural Language Processing, University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany (e-mail: joachim.griesbaum@uni-hildesheim.de).

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Cite: Joachim Griesbaum, "Trends in e-Learning: Impacts of Social Mobile Technologies on Information Behavior, Formal Learning and the Educational Market," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 123-129, 2017.