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After having the matriculation examination, two hundred and sixty thousand students in 2018 must attempt to higher education which their preferred institutes or universities or polytechnic collages or vocational education centers based on their matric result marks. Nowadays, seven hundred and eighty thousands of students are studying as undergraduate students of forty-eight Arts and Science universities within Myanmar. About two hundred and fifty thousand of students’ entrance allow day-study in the Arts and Science universities. At that time, the rest five hundred and thirty thousands of students join to the thirty-five Distance Universities of Myanmar (15 universities in Lower Myanmar and 20 in Higher) except Education Universities, Yangon University and Mandalay University (News and Periodical Enterprise 2019). 

For the day-study undergraduate students, each studies for two semesters (four months) for four years. Thus teachers have a lot of lecturer, discussion, practical and tutorial times as well as students have  for study times four months per semester doing as a participant of their university life with other activities such as Red Cross, Scouts, Sports, Arts, Excursions, Field Trip and other events for each semester. For distance students who are based on student–workers life, each subject takes ten days or twelve hours per year within intensive courses lecture time. In this case study, I will focus on the role of day-students in Hinthada University because more than four hundred and fifty day-students of geography specialization know on the mobile phone lecture-class than distance students. The student groups were both undergraduate (1^styear Map work and basic techniquesI &II and 4^thyear Geomorphology I&II) and postgraduate (2^ndyear Honest Research methodology and field surveyand 1^stMaster Special technology for research). For my lecture time schedule for each semester, More than fifty studied as the first year geography students and thirty-five students were attending at the final year. And, seven students for master degree were attending at Hinthada University. 

Mobile phones motivate studentsto be more interested in their specialization courses. Today, the mobile phone to enhance distance learning systems is being utilized worldwide (Wagner E.D., 2005). Mobile learning can be more interactive involving context, communication and collaboration with distance student of Myanmar.  

Context: I have taught tourism geography in the Tourism Department of National Management Degree College since 2014. This is a course for second year undergraduate students. Class size is usually just over 50, with more than twice as many women as men.  All the students are day students, taught face-to-face, and not distance learners.  Most are 18 years and not in employment.  Acquiring field survey and interview techniques is important for tourism students’ research skills . 

I also teach a Geography of Myanmar module on a postgraduate Diploma in Tourism Studies and Management.  All the students are in employment. Therefore, this course teaching time is weekday every morning 7 a.m to 9 a.m. A typical class size would be just above 40 students with about twice as many women as men and an average age of 30+.