The need for integrating communities of practice and mobile learning for digital literacy development

In the modern world, digital environment has become so empowering that computers and other digital technologies have become such a basic part of life. As such, being digitally illiterate is no longer an option; it is deemed to be a necessity in education, workplace, and for every internet user. To prepare themselves for the challenges in the workplace, higher education students need to develop their digital literateness. An integrated concept of Communities of Practice and Mobile Learning is proposed as a pedagogical model to improve students' digital literacy mirroring the criteria of the International Standards of Technology in Education.