Finding Ways to Bring Education to Everyone in Panama Through Mobile Learning Aris Castillo Universidad Tecnologica de Panama aris.castillo@utp.ac.pa Gisela Clunie Universidad Tecnologica de Panama gisela.clunie@utp.ac.pa Abstract This paper presents the main features developed for a mobile learning application to expand the possibilities of learning for students from rural areas or those constrained by schedule and location to attend school. The work presented is focused on methodologies and tool selections to develop the system. Still remains one of the main concerns about the system, which consists on making sure the system is light in terms of power consumption and bandwidth needs. 1. Background Universidad Tecnologica de Panama (UTP) started a virtual university program back in 2000 with Aulanet, a proprietary platform from a collaboration project with Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in Brazil. By the time, this was the first project of this kind in the country and the main idea was to integrate ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in learning and teaching activities in the university along its six branches along the country. According to Clunie, in 2003, UTP, aware of its role and responsibility with Panamanian society and lined up with its vision and mission, created Virtual UTP (UTP virtual) [1], taking advantage of hyper- technologies [2], in response to the needs of specialization and continuous education of people that due to work, schedules, distance, family responsibilities and/or physical despairs did not have possibilities to attend on site education [3]. In 2010 we started a project to design and develop MLEA – mobile learning environment adapter [4], an application to provide a customized access to Moodle in Android based devices. The reason for Moodle and Android laid in the fact in 2008 UTP moved to Moodle platform given the lack of upgrade of Aulanet with new operation systems, and even though by 2010 most smart phones in Panama were Blackberries, the trends worldwide pointed to Android devices.