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Learner requirements derived through learning experiences plays a major role in any e-learning environment as it has the potential to retrieve the most appropriate Learning Objects (LO) for the learners. With the help of specifications like experience API (xAPI), the e-learning environments these days are capable of recording the learning experiences of the learners both inside and outside the Leaning...
The proliferation of Internet and technology triggered exponential growth in adoption of e-learning by many organizations worldwide. E-learning offers many benefits including ease of access, availability, re-usability and rich learning resources. With advances is technology, learning methods and objects have evolved from conventional text based content to multimedia and interactive knowledge objects...
This paper outlines the possibilities for improving the quality in physics teaching by the use of apps on iPads. In order to find out whether apps with interactive simulations, feature for displaying readouts and with augmented reality content support pupils in achieving their learning goals, the author carried out surveys among students of two classes at the BG/BRG Schwechat. iPads show their advantages...
Distance education that is supported traditionally through technology has transitioned from e-learning to mobile learning because of the ubiquitous presence of the Internet, as well as rapid advancements in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and recent improvements in learning technology. With the coming and popularization of mobile devices and ubiquitous computing, the idea of e-learning...
Facebook® is a popular social network. There are approximately 1 billion registered users as of 2013. On the other hand, developing countries are starting to take advan- tage of the free platform and capabilities provided through facebook. The Island Kingdom of Tonga located in the South Pacific is also taking advantage of this social network. The secondary students of the Kingdom of Tonga are also...
Mobile devices are increasingly being adopted in educational institutions to help students in their learning process. These technologies significantly affect the motivation of and the collaboration among students in their learning activities. These technologies bring numerous benefits to the students, teachers, and school administrators, which have greatly contributed to their increasing popularity...
Approximately more than eight hundred (800) First Year Students at the University of Namibia in 2010 and 2011 were enrolled in Mathematics class against a few teaching staff. As such this resulted in a challenge to individual students' attention, which yielded low passing rate. To improve that, the students in their spare time tried to make use of computer services to revise and practice their Mathematics...
Nowadays, mobile technologies offer vast possibilities to extend and enrich learning activities. The constant evolution and growing use of these technologies, makes them a powerful instrument to promote a more inclusive education world-wide. Higher Education Institutions must then take advantage of these technologies in order to improve their learning processes. In this context, this paper presents...
In order to solve the problem of students e-learning on demand and the problem of teachers classroom quiz by smart mobile phone, this paper proposed a method in cloud computing environment based on open source OpenStack platform and Android. It consists of three parts which are the client part disposed on mobile used for teachers, students and the service part of classroom quiz library disposed on...
Mobile learning is considered to be an advanced stage of E-learning. Mobile devices supported learning provides teaching materials anytime, anywhere, and eliminates space and time constraints for learners. Mobile devices-supported learning includes all portable devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, tablet PCs, and e-books. This paper aims to investigate the issue from a different perspective. Firstly,...
The recent advance in cloud computing and mobile devices empowers many innovative e-learning systems or games with increased interactivity and improved features. In this paper, we consider an innovative framework of cloud-based e-learning games that can be assessed through mobile devices to enhance students' learning anytime and anywhere. Being model-based, our proposal is adaptive and highly portable...
Mobile learning (ML) has been growing recently. The successful adoption of this technology to enhance learning environments could represent a major contribution for education. The purpose of this research will be to investigate the effect of learning styles on ML adoption. This research will consider four stages: conduct an exploratory study, develop a systematic literature review, develop the model...
The introduction of m-learning systems often do not show the expected benefits. The main problem is the low acceptance of this new kind of teaching and learning process by some interest groups. In context of the PhD thesis the problem of "Technology Adoption" from the perspective of students and lecturers needs to get deeply analysed. Academic papers that explicitly analyse the intention...
This paper presents preliminary results from experimental u-learning solutions designed to blend different paradigms and technologies, including cloud services. The technical objective was to evaluate the most cost-effective technological solutions for a remote and isolated rural community, having non-permanent internet connection and scarce financial resources. The learning objective was to provide...
Cloud computing is a relative new technology that has various advantages, including specific applicable to education. In this paper, we discuss the influence of cloud computing on learners, teachers and educational institutions. Cloud computing, especially with relation to mobile learning, will improve the current institutional system of education, and also the quality and affordability of education...
Rapid development of mobile technology and the increasing availability of wireless mobile devices in everyday life have created new acronym known as mobile learning (m-learning) which has emerged as a potential educational environment to support learning and make significant contributions as extension of e-learning. Taking into account the strengths and weaknesses of using m-learning and key factors...
There is an exponential increase in the demand for the online-only courses and this demand is recorded by several higher educational institutions. E-learning using traditional computing is not a sufficient solution against this voluminous demand of learning content sharing. It requires large storage space and the overhead of a high speed network infrastructure. Cloud computing is the composition of...
To counter the growing lack of experts in the IT sector, and to give, at the same time, a possibility for lifelong learning, a consortium of north German universities has initiated the project “Computer Engineering Online”. The goal is to develop and to publish an eLearning online study program for computer engineering in winter 2012. Referred to the blended learning strategy, the bigger part of the...
The iPad is a very popular touchscreen tablet computer, which was introduced approximately two, two and a half years ago. It runs the MAC operating system making it suitable for different general and special uses. The paper focuses on the fact how the use of iPads can help education, make teaching and learning more efficient. In addition to the technical, infrastructural parameters, which are essential...
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