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Computer games have been exploited in educational procedures, since they help in fostering creativity, in familiarization with technology, and develop problem-solving, logical thinking, communication, and collaborative skills (Sicart 2009). Games is a symptom of our societies and offer learning and strong educational advantages, as they fully motivate and engage students. The term “game” refers to...
In order to successfully deliver Mobile-Based Assessments in any educational setting, it is of great importance to investigate the factors that influence its adoption from the students. The present study aims to explain and predict the Technology Acceptance Model constructs “Attitudes towards Using” (ATU) and “Intention to Use” (ITU) mobile-based assessment from the perspective of the Self-Determination...
Based on the current problems such as inadequate server's processing and storage capacity, inconvenient operation and deficient interactivity in the information management system for academic administration in vocational colleges, we develop a cloud computing-based mobile teaching management and evaluation system in vocational colleges, which solves the problems in the present teaching management...
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...
Motivation is an essential factor to promote academic performance and learning satisfaction. Moreover, the development of mobile cooperative learning has become important in the mobile learning environment. Taking different learning styles into consideration when designing instructional materials will meet individual needs and improve learning outcome. However, limited research has been done on investigating...
In this study, a long term mobile learning program was conducted and a survey was developed to explore the effects of mobile learning on five 21st century core competences, that is, collaboration, communication, complex problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity, using a sample of 606 high school students from 10 high schools in Taiwan. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted to show that...
With the rapid progress of mobile technologies and the popularity of wireless networks, educational settings and strategies have changed significantly. Learning environments are no longer limited to classrooms, instead, the importance of conducting learning activities for knowledge construction through interaction with physical environments has been emphasized. In the meantime, researchers have indicated...
For security of Android operating systems, permission-based solutions are one of popular approaches but still exposed to two problems. First, there is coarse-grained relationship between a permission and its associated methods. Second, mobile users do not have rights to control the permissions of their applications. To solve these problems, we propose MacDroid that enables users to control the system...
The "Girls on the Go: The Mobile Computing College Experience" is a residential summer camp whose aim is to encourage female high school students to attend college, to consider computer science as viable major, and to pursue computing related degrees. The camp content is designed primarily around a user-centered design process, with the students gaining experience in the development of a...
Peer assessment strategy has been noted as an effectiveness learning strategy for students to construct their knowledge during the process of evaluating peers' work. Moreover, this effective learning strategy further benefits teaching reality of the schools. In order to engage students to have more in-deep thinking during peer assessment activity, a peer-assessment criteria development approach conducting...
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...
The field of Robotics has been around for over half a century. Historically robots have been mostly used for industrial manufacturing applications, although emerging areas in medical, space, security, military, entertainment, and service applications are gaining momentum in the recent years. In the academic community also there have been growing efforts at many K-12 schools to motivate students in...
The ever increasing traffic demand becomes a serious concern of mobile network operators. To solve this traffic explosion problem, there have been many efforts to offload the traffic from cellular links to direct communications among users. In this paper, we propose the framework of Traffic Offloading assisted by Social network services (SNS) via opportunistic Sharing in mobile social networks, TOSS,...
STEM education must keep pace with industry leading technologies in order to produce graduates with 21th century knowledge and skills. Teaching methods and approaches are continuously challenged and they evolve as innovative instructional technology becomes available on the market. This paper focuses on the development of a set of laboratory experiments for the students enrolled in the Electrical...
Understanding the factors that influence the continuance in usage of smartphones in globally distributed teams is extremely helpful because most organizations are encouraging employees to use smartphones or bring your own device for self-advancement, job promotion, job security, performance, effectiveness, productivity, and service quality. To date, to the best of our knowledge, there are no published...
Performing hajj and umrah is one of the five pillars of Islam. The ritual involves many rules and procedures, and to remember all these rules and procedures usually poses a problem for pilgrims. The advancement of IT can provide a solution to the problem mentioned above. Hence, we apply the Internet and smart phone technologies to develop the M - Umrah application for users. The target users of this...
Physical activities play important role in having better health. However, due to the nature of our jobs, most of us have developed sedentary habits and it is very seldom that we find dedicated time for exercise or other physical activities. Sedentary behavior has been identified as an important factor in preventing good health and there is a need to push adults to carry out physical activities regularly,...
The main purpose of this study is to develop a mobile-based peer assessment system and apply this system to assess the students' works of computer curriculum in an elementary school. We adopted mobile technology to design a peer assessment APP which can be deployed in mobile devices such as smart phone. In order to investigate the user perception toward this system and peer-assessment activities,...
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