This chapter outlines the notion of mobility and the role of mobile devices, technologies and systems in changes in aspects of our societies, and looks at the impact and the implications of these changes for education and those that learn and teach, asking whether the education system, especially the institutions of formal learning, the schools, colleges and universities, need to make tactical, technical changes and reforms, asking whether ‘business-as-usual’ still possible? Or whether these changes suggest that the education system is somehow broken and no longer fit-for-purpose? Or whether there is some more complex and fragmented answer between these two extremes? The formal education system is not however monolithic and coherent different stakeholders will see its role and purpose differently and its relations to society differently too, different parts of it will be informed by different politics and educational theories and philosophies.
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