Abstract :
With the development of mobile Internet and the popularity of smart devices, mobile teachingis considered to be a trend of future teaching. As one of teaching softwares based on mobileterminal, MosoTeach enjoys great popularity in China. With the information collected throughliterature research as well as authors’ experiences of applying MosoTeach in classroom teaching,the present paper introduces a mobile teaching mode based on MosoTeach, and addressesfunctions of MosoTeach, the application of mobile teaching mode based on MosoTeach, and itsbenefits and challenges. Three benefits are pointed out, which are diversification, personalizationand liberalization of learning; timely, all-sided and formative assessment system; and theconvenience of collecting data and doing statistic analysis. Meanwhile, there are also somearguments about this mode such as the efficiency of participation, balancing between activitiesin and out of the classroom, balancing between face-to-face interaction and interaction throughMosoTeach as well as the popularization in poverty-stricken areas, and some suggestions are putforward to solve these problems. Teachers should plan and organize the teaching materials well,and differentiate activities according to different phases in which those activities are carried outand keep balance between face-to-face interaction and interaction through MosoTeach.
