NDLI: Academic attainment or annoyance: Does mobile learning actually benefit today's students?

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Byrne, C.S.
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: Higher Colleges of Technology - Fujairah Women's College, UAE (Byrne, C.S.)
Abstract	The HCT boasts in its strategic plan that “Students study using the latest equipment, technology and modern teaching and learning methods.” (Strategic plan Summary 2008 - 2012, p.4). Its first main goal is to “Enhance HCT's current offerings of programs and access” (Strategic plan Summary 2008 – 2012, p.3, emphasis added) As an educator within the HCT, I conducted an action research task within the college, sympathetic to the goals stated above, with the express purpose of assessing the viability of one such teaching and learning method, using existing infrastructure. The research centered around the use of mobile technology as a means of delivery of content to students within the Diploma Foundations year, as part of their computer literacy course. Three groups of students were compared - students using traditional paper methods of delivery, students using a Learning Management System (Blackboard Vista) for delivery and students getting some content through Mobile Technology - mobile phones.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	6
File Size	2790716
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424457540
e-ISBN	9781424457571
e-ISBN	9781424457564
DOI	10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423134
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-12-15
Publisher Place	United Arab Emirates
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Portable media players Learning systems Technology management Content management Education Educational institutions Mobile handsets Paper technology Internet telephony Mobile computing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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