Security approach in m-learning

The m-learning field has been defined new educational services that deliver knowledge and content on mobile devices, highlighting a dreamed educational concept, anywhere, anytime. Education processes have evolved in the last decades by integrating new technology. Many m-learning services use SMS to deliver simple text content because it has a low cost, it is available on all mobile devices and has wide coverage and availability. As more and more sensitive data is processed by m-learning services, we propose a solution that will secure the SMS content and that will have minimal impact on the device performance. After identifying the challenges, this paper provides a comprehensive review and classification of the state-of-the-art research on security and privacy in the m-learning realm and beyond. As far as we are aware of, this is the first time an exhaustive and detailed survey of this kind is attempted.

Keywords:

security , Privacy , m-learning , java , phone , SMS