MakarchukT.A. 1
MinakovV.F. 1
Artemyev A.V. 1
1 FGBOU VPO «Saint Petersburg State University of Economics»
The main topics of this article are the tendencies of IT development and their impact on the development of mobile learning in higher education. It is highlighted that the main part of students are technically and psychologically ready to use mobile learning technologies. There are specific principles, tools and methods of mobile leaning and also instrumental tools for the work with educational content, such as cloud services «software as a service» and apps for creating interactive textbooks. Moreover, in the article you can find a list of demands to the mobile devices, as well as the discussion of open Microsoft on-line services’ capabilities in the sphere of education. The technologies of cloud SaaS services integration and learning management systems are also described there.