A Secure Location-Based Privacy Preserving Framework for M-Learning Adoption to Enhance Distance Education in Kenya:Work in Progress

Abstract

Location-based privacy in mobile learning is essential to retain users’ trust, key to influencing usage intention. Any risk on privacy can negatively affect users’ perceptions of a system’s reliability and trustworthiness. While extant studies have proposed frameworks for mobile technologies adoption into learning, few have integrated privacy aspects and their influence on m-learning implementation. The aim of this research is to study mlearning literature in order to propose and develop a privacypreserving framework which can be used to foster sustainable deployment of m-learning within open and distance education in Kenya. The framework would provide University educators with planned approach to incorporate privacy preserving techniques in m-learning implementation. Also, it could provide informed guidance to mobile learning application developers on the need to cater for learners’ privacy aspects.