Title :
Building Learning Communities in Blended Classrooms Through an Innovative mLearning System
Author :
Pan, Xiaoyan ; Shen, Ruimin ; Wang, Minjuan
Author_Institution :
Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., Shanghai
Abstract :
Chinese classrooms have long suffered from a lack of interactivity. Many online classes simply provide recorded instructor lectures for students to listen to. This format only reinforces the negative effects of passive non-participatory learning. At a major university in Shanghai, researchers and developers actively seek technologic interventions that can greatly increase interactivity in online classes. They developed a cutting-edge mobile learning system that can deliver live broadcast of real-time classroom teaching to online students with mobile devices. This system allows students to customize means of content-reception.. The system also supports short text-messaging and instant polls. Through these venues, students can ask questions and make suggestions in real time, and the instructor can address them immediately. This paper describes this system in detail, and also reports results from a test implementation of the system with a blended classroom of 1000 students (250 campus and 750 online).
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; interactive systems; mobile computing; blended classrooms; interactivity; learning communities; mLearning system; mobile devices; mobile learning system; Cellular phones; Education; Educational institutions; Electronic learning; Floors; Ground penetrating radar; Handheld computers; Learning systems; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; blended classrooms; mobile learning; persuasive technology;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, 2007. VECIMS 2007. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Ostuni
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0820-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0820-7
DOI :
10.1109/VECIMS.2007.4373944
