The development IPTV to mobile IPTV: Implications for teaching and learning

IPTV, or Internet Protocol Television, provided digital content (text, graphic, audio and video) which users watched as television broadcasting on the Internet. This paper presents the development of IPTV (Suan Dusit Internet Broadcasting: SDIB) to mobile IPTV and describes the implications for teaching and learning. The mobile IPTV was developed as a prototype and designed to support users via wireless and mobile networks regardless of the mobile device. The system could be broadcasted through both live and video on demand (VOD) passing through mobile browser (smart phones, smart TVs, and tablets) and web browsers (Windows, Mac, and Unix). The prototype has been used for teaching and learning and users have evaluated the system performance. The result of users´ evaluation of the mobile IPTV compared with IPTV found that mobile IPTV has higher average scores of functions which support user´s needs, has good quality of content providing, is easy to use, convenient, attractive and has a high overall satisfaction. Moreover, this paper provided guidelines in technical issues for helping educational institutions to develop mobile IPTV implication on teaching and learning.