Our panellists this time were Tony Lowe of Webducate, Michael Wilkinson of i-education, Jon Toothill of Lightbox Education, Dan Sodergren of Great Marketing Works, Gavin Hubbard of Learndirect, as usual the event was hosted by UKFast's communications director Jonathan Bowers.

Despite the benefits that mobile learning affords students, with limited funding available, universities and e-learning businesses must be encouraged to develop systems that can be used on a variety of devices. Tony Lowe, managing director of Webducate, said, "We're a small company and not in a position to start developing apps for all of the different operating systems as there are so many.

"From working with universities it is apparent that they are not in a position to demand students have an iPhone or iPod or provide everyone with one, even though it is a good marketing tool. Ultimately, people come to university with their own personal device and that is what we need to work with."