Abstract
Background. Development based on Information and Communications Technology (ITC) is the future of Albanian economy and society to ensure sustainable development and reduction of poverty. Higher Albanian education has an important role to realize this development. Efforts for harmonizing the pathways of the progress of higher education in Albania have recognized achievements and developments that need to be considered when assessing the qualitative growth of ICT and the contribution of higher education institutions to the formation of the generations that are able not only to use these new ideas but also to influence the spreading of the new ideas, developing and transforming Albanian society.
Subject and Methods. In this chapter, we are focused in examination of technology development strategies, the role of government policies to create a collaborative platform of actors, and the changes that have taken places in Albanian higher education in general, and in particular the gender changes and the role of women in social change this past years. To realize this aim, we are relying on quantitative and qualitative methods from foreign and domestic literature, comparing outward and inward trends, the changes that have emerged in Albanian society and in higher education and to present progressive perspectives on E-learning and future technologies in our country.
Conclusions. The evolution of Mobile Learning in Higher Education in Albania should take the following direction: the existing Mobile Learning environments participate in future mobile learning as content repositories, but the active part of learning process covered by the personal learning environment, where the students, using their favourite e-services and e-tools, will construct their knowledge in constant collaboration, just a click away from the knowledge, from the services, from a complex social life.
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Abbreviations
- Generation Y:
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The generation born between 1982 and 1995, is also known as Generation Why, Generation Next, the www generation, the Millennium Generation, or Echo Boomers
- Generation Z:
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Defined as people born from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s who have used the Internet since a young age and are comfortable with technology and social media
- HEI:
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Higher education institutions
- ICT:
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Information and communication technology
- i-mode:
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A customized packet-based mobile service
- INSTAT:
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Institute of Statistics Albania
- MIAP:
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Ministry of Innovation and Public Administration in Albania
- M-Learning:
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Mobile learning or m-learning is the learning activity on mobile devices or learning anytime and anywhere
- Net-gen:
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The Net-Generation is the cohort of young people born between 1982 and 1991 who have grown up in an environment in which they are constantly exposed to computer-based technology. It has been suggested that their methods of learning are different from those of previous generations
- NR:
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Networked readiness is a key indicator of how countries are doing in the digital world
- NRI:
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Network Readiness Index measures how well an economy is using information and communications technologies to boost competitiveness and well-being.
- Web:
-
An Internet-based hypertext system
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Nikaj, I. (2019). Expectations from Future Technologies and E-Learning in Higher Education in Albania. In: Zhang, Y., Cristol, D. (eds) Handbook of Mobile Teaching and Learning. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41981-2_43-2
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