Book excerpt: Mobile learning is an educational strategy that uses mobile technologies in order to promote and enable learning. Mobile learning also encompasses efforts to support broad educational goals across numerous fields as it caters to the effective administration of learning systems and more improved communication between educational institutions, students, and their families. Advancing Mobile Learning in Contemporary Educational Spaces is a critical scholarly book that provides current research on the applications of mobile and handheld technologies in education. Highlighting the use of mobile technologies across multiple discipline areas such as healthcare, language learning, and film studies, this book is excellent for practitioners, educators, educational policymakers, administrators, instructional designers, learning and development professionals, medical and mental health practitioners, academicians, and researchers.