• DocumentCode
    3042519
  • Title

    Mobile learning: New forms of education

  • Author

    Campanella, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    8-9 Nov. 2012
  • Firstpage
    51
  • Lastpage
    56
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Emerging eLearning Technologies & Applications (ICETA), 2012 IEEE 10th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Stara Lesna
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-5120-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICETA.2012.6418282
  • Filename
    6418282