Title :
Mobile learning: New forms of education
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
Abstract :
The exponential growth of mobile technology, advances in wireless technologies and popularity of handheld devices, have opened up new accessibility opportunities for education. A characteristic of today´s society is the increasing use of modern information and communication technologies in all areas. Investment in mobile device is an important step to improve the quality of life in our dynamic society. The paper analyses the impact of m-learning on the educational process and describes characteristics of m-learning applications. For the evaluation of characteristics are described metrics and measured values are used to determine the m-learning application overall quality level. The value is determined by aggregating each factor value and taking into consideration importance coefficient.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; mobile computing; dynamic society; educational process; handheld devices; importance coefficient; information and communication technologies; m-Iearning application overall quality level; mobile device; mobile learning; mobile technology; wireless technologies; Education; Reliability; characteristic; m-learning; mobile devices; mobile technologies;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging eLearning Technologies & Applications (ICETA), 2012 IEEE 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Stara Lesna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5120-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICETA.2012.6418282