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The use of mobile devices as learning aids is increasing due to availability and affordability of mobile phones, smartphones and tablets among students. Many learners use their handheld devices not only for calling and texting, but also for educational purposes. Some promoters and developers of mobile learning in universities are developing and delivering learning content and instructions on mobile...
The keen adoption of m-learning by higher education institutions on a global scale because of widespread use of mobile devices requires proper security considerations in order not to expose m-learning systems to cyber-attack. M-learning systems normally comprise three components which are the mobile device, one or multiple servers and network devices. While servers and network infrastructure have...
We describe the design, development and usage of a mobile hybrid application (UROMobile), with a high usability factor, in an interactive medical school with more than 120 attendees. UROMobile application offers support for several learning activities, as well as program information, general evaluation forms, profile information and many more. The evaluation results shows that there is a successful...
This paper presents study investigating the extent to which Saudi students understand and are familiar with mobile learning. It investigates students' use of handheld devices and considers the daily activities for which they could be used while also evaluating m-learning in Saudi Arabia - a topic that has not yet received adequate attention from researchers. Initial data was acquired through a questionnaire...
The rapid development of mobile technologies is driving the evolution of e-learning to mobile-learning (m-learning), however; academic research on the impact of mobile-technologies on the learning process in higher education and instructional design guidelines based on a solid theoretical framework for mobile-learning has not yet been exhaustively covered. The focus of this paper is to compare mobile-learning...
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...
Most of the developed countries universities have understood the advantages and usage of mobile based learning (m-learning) and have put mobile based learning into practice not only in distance education, but also in regular class room learning process. Developing countries like India, having a huge students presence and a large number of universities, institutions, though gradually shifting towards...
There are many technologies available to education enabling fast and easy access to knowledge. Technologies change rapidly so the opportunities and the challenges they bring. Changing nature of some technologies may have a great impact in education. The next big technology change in education is expected to be in mobile learning platform. The next coming years are expected to offer wide range of opportunities...
Considering the popularity and ubiquitous nature of mobile phones, the acceptance of m-Learning in educational institutions is limited. While several studies have reviewed m-Learning platforms, different settings and contexts make it difficult to collate these studies and discover the key factors for the successful adoption of m-Learning platform. This study uses meta-analysis technique to compare...
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...
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...
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...
recently there have been some efforts, albeit limited, to identify the optimal use of the available arrays of data in higher education for many purposes, such as to identify those students who are at risk and to evaluate student dropout rates. In the literature, the two main terms for the efforts made to identify practical ways of making use of higher education data are Academic Analytics and Learning...
Learning has matured from a tethered delivery strategy offered through mail into a delivery strategy mediated by electronic devices (E-Learning) [4], and now we witness a robust mobile learning strategy delivered wirelessly to students in a smart classroom. Technology has afforded these students the opportunity to interact with classmates and educators anytime, and anywhere. In this paper we propose...
This paper present a case study report on the findings of an empirical study conducted at the Central University College (CUC) in Ghana on the use of “OUTSTART” AD-CONNECT mobile learning (m-learning) application for authoring m-learning content. The system use the familiar Microsoft power point with an added features which comes with authoring tools which is simple to use by teachers for creating...
In recent years, mobile learning (m-learning) has been realized as a high-efficiency way of learning. M-learning provides supports in distance learning, face to face and blended learning. However, with the increasing number of users, services, education contents and resources, ways of deploying m-learning are now faced some serious problems. This paper particularly focuses on three aspects of the...
Much like immigrants who leave the cultural comfort of their home societies and move to places with very different cultures and social practices, those who teach online leave the familiarity of the face-to-face classroom for the uncharted terrain of the online environment, whose constraints and affordances often lead to very different practices. The trans-classroom teacher who moves between the two...
Flying developments of mobile technology bring new opportunities to teaching, people begin to exert themselves to integrate the predominance of mobile technology into curriculums. This paper first discusses the classification of mobile technology and its influences on education domain, then it analyses the learning surrounding of mobile device. Based on it, this paper expounds on the technology selection...
this study selected English and non-English major college students as the survey object. Literature method, survey research and interview method have been used to investigate college major differences in need of mobile phone learning. Results show that: attitude of mobile phone learning, expectations, preferences in the form of resources and content are different with major.
Following the progress of social interaction technology, the learning and teaching environment has changed, especially in higher education, into a new learning environment called Mobile learning environment. This is a case study of M-learning environment based on micro-blogs and cellular phones, and the content of which is Educational Communication. In view of the advances of micro-blogging, and the...
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