Title :
The design of a question solving mechanism to encourage students to participate in learning activities through handheld mobile devices
Author :
Lan, Yu-Feng ; Hsieh, Cheng-Lun
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Manage., Nat. Formosa Univ., Yunlin
Abstract :
The purpose of this study was to investigate how to improve the question solving mechanism to encourage students participation in learning activities through handheld mobile devices. Our proposed question solving mechanism includes question issued agent, question voting function, and message delivery agent to reduce the question solving processes and to enhance learning effect by using handheld mobile devices. According to the results, learners mostly agreed on our proposed question solving mechanism. It can help teacher-student interaction, enhance learners learning effects, and achieve higher learning satisfaction.
Keywords :
distance learning; educational technology; mobile computing; mobile handsets; handheld mobile devices; learning activities; message delivery agent; question issued agent; question solving mechanism; question solving processes; question voting function; teacher-student interaction; Anthropometry; Cognition; Education; Educational institutions; Handheld computers; Information management; Mobile computing; Particle measurements; Virtual environment; Voting; M-learning; Metacognition; Question solving mechanism; Teacher-student interaction;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurements Systems, 2009. VECIMS '09. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3808-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1944-9410
DOI :
10.1109/VECIMS.2009.5068905