The Evaluation Of Mobile Devices As Learning Tool For Higher Education Learners

Sek , Yong Wee and Shahril , Parumo and Nazrulazhar , Bahaman (2009) The Evaluation Of Mobile Devices As Learning Tool For Higher Education Learners. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Information technology (IT) is an agent of change that has been transforming our society in very profound ways. The popularity of mobile devices among higher education learners, and its accessibility anywhere anytime, coupled with its powerful computing capabilities makes it a powerful tool. Many institutes of higher education around the world have been integrated and utilized Mobile learning to complement the traditional face-to-face teaching and learning. Surry and Ely pointed that there is no guarantee for the adoption of an instructional sound and technically superior learning systems. In order to achieve the desired purpose and for its benefits to be realized, mobile learning devices must be accepted and appropriately used by its intended users. Hence, it is worthwhile to explore the use of the mobile devices as a pedagogical tool; it can help with education anywhere, anytime. More research should be conducted in the adoption and diffusion of mobile devices as pedagogical tool to examine how higher education learners will respond to them before assess the effectiveness and impact to the learners' performance. In the course of the overall project, while other researchers focus on the mobile learning content development, this project will concentrate on evaluation of the experience of higher education learners interacting with multimedia learning content on mobile devices. This study may be of value to educators, instructional and interface designers, educational content developers, hardware and software application designers, and experience designers who can use the findings to design and develop multimedia learning content for mobile devices.

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