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The education sector is going through a very marked change in relation to the needs of students who arrive at Higher Institutions Education (HIEs), and the labor market requirements. There are already solutions that try to meet the new requirements; however, the changing of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) require a rapid and demanding adaptation. In this context it is assumed that...
This paper reports an experience of ICT application using mobile devices on an educational scenario on a basic education environment. We present a pilot project developed by the Remote Experimentation Lab (RExLab), from the Federal University of Santa Catarina and coexecuted by the School of Basic Education Maria Garcia Pessi in Santa Catarina, Brazil. The project has the support of the National Council...
M-learning is an exciting art of using mobile technologies to enhance the learning experience. Mobile phones, PDAs, Pocket PCs and the Internet can be blended to engage and motivate learners, anytime and anywhere. However, as a quite new, exciting and promising field, there is a need for an overall review of M-learning. This paper examines four definition perspectives of M-learning and describes several...
The purpose of this paper is to formulate a functional platform that supports the e-learning objectives: study individually and freely. The proposed platform is based on 3G mobile phone technology, it is integrated with operation system and application software developed with JAVA 2 micro edition and Flash Lite version 1.2, respectively. This platform gives learners the ability to learn anytime and...
After centuries of little change, the teaching and learning in Thai universities is on the verge of taking a giant leap forward. New and emerging pedagogies are harnessing the power of Internet and communication technologies (ICT) at a very fast pace. New trends in eLearning and mLearning are bringing about dramatic changes in the higher educational landscape, transforming the breadth, depth, quality...
The usage of e-learning tools has brought an immediate benefit to the teaching field for both academics and students, allowing them to have a better administration of time and a permanent access to the class content. Moreover, the increase in the use of mobile devices is becoming more notable as it is the need for accessing information from any place one is at is more extensive. The enormous popularity...
Higher education has undergone a deep change since the Bologna Declaration and with the incorporation of new technologies, learning methods have been benefited by a large number of recent systems based on the combination of various models of education (blended learning). The present paper shows the evolution of e-learning towards other concepts such as b-learning and m-learning, giving examples of...
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