Authors:
Habib M. Fardoun
;
Pedro G. Villanueva
;
Juan Enrique Garrido
;
Gabriel Sebastian Rivera
and
Elena de la Gíua
Affiliation:
Informatics Research Institute of Albacete, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Keyword(s):
m-Learning, HCI Technology, Mobile Devices, Context Awareness, Collaborative Environments, Distributed User Interfaces.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
e-Business
;
Education/Learning
;
e-Learning
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
HCI on Enterprise Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Internet HCI: Web Interfaces and Usability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
Abstract:
M-learning is an exciting art of using mobile technologies to enhance learning skills. Mobile phones, PDAs, Pocket PCs and the Internet can be joined together in order to engage and motivate learners, anytime anywhere. The society is entering a new era of m-Learning, which makes important to analyze and innovate the current educational tools. This article proposes a new tool that aims to improve the deficiencies identified in the usual analysis. The proposed tool, is called MPrinceTool, provides a new means to interact via mobile technology by using web services that facilitate users to participate in educational activities and communication with working groups, synchronously: where students can participate in class and communicate with the teacher and the other students, also they can realize exams and exercises which needs the teacher presence; or asynchronously: Which allow students to feel free in realizing there educational activities out of school time. These advantages will be
clearly adapted by our tool and part of it will be explained in the “use case” proposed in the paper. Also we present a brief explanation of the used methodology and technology, in developing this tool by presenting its system architecture, deployment and class models.
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