Abstract
Near Field Communication (NFC) is deemed to be a future technology with a lot of potential in many areas. One of those areas, learning and teaching, will be covered in this article, showing possible usages of NFC with teaching and learning materials. With a lot of new NFC capable devices presented recently, this technology can be utilized in many areas, including the arbitrarily growing field of mobile learning. 
 Mobile devices, especially smartphones, can help to close the gap between printed media and online media. Several methods, e.g. two-dimensional barcodes, have already been used to connect the digital world with printed media but almost all of them caused inconveniences or difficulties. NFC presents an easy to use way to share and communicate directly between capable devices or tags that can be applied almost anywhere.
 In this publication a first insight to the potential of NFC for teaching and learning content is given. A prototype is programmed to allow data transformation between the print media and the smartphone. It can be summarized that NFC will be the logical successor of QR-Codes.
Highlights
Information technology is one of the fastest growing branches; especially the mobile sector expands very quickly and is introduced in many new areas
It cannot display articles read from Near Field Communication (NFC) tags or devices yet but it shows the potential of the technology by listing different data types of received data
It simplifies and reduces several interactions to a single action of narrow contact and can be used even by handicapped people. It allows integrating digital media into printed media using a mobile device with NFC as interface
Summary
Information technology is one of the fastest growing branches; especially the mobile sector expands very quickly and is introduced in many new areas. Doing so requires a scanning application on the mobile device that uses the integrated camera of the device to read the code. The reading process is usually faster and can be done by getting the mobile device close to the tag. This method is technically similar to the well-known and established RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification), with mainly the data format and range specification being different. Beside the widely used one-dimensional barcodes, frequently used types of twodimensional codes are for example Data Matrix and QRCode [21] Both are nowadays used in printed media to provide URLs to websites or even handle shopping, as the Korean company Tesco introduced in a subway station in Seoul. The following chapter points out how NFC can be used to connect digital and printed materials, using teaching and learning materials as an example
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