Mobile Application Development for Technology Enhanced Learning: An Applied Study on the Students of the College of Mass Communication at Ajman University

Abstract

Educational applications play an important role in modern education. Based on this, the objectives of this study are as follows: analyze a student interview (focus group) that has been conducted among University student of college of Mass Communication at Ajman University; determine the characteristics of educational applications; find out possible advantages and disadvantages of educational applications; formulate, including based on a student interview, criteria for choosing educational applications; divide educational applications into different categories to more fully see the academic possibilities of their use; develop student skills. Based on the objectives, it is decided to divide the study into two parts. The first step is to analyze semi-structured interviews that have been conducted with students. In the second part of the study, a list of educational applications is compiled, indicating their educational categories.

Discovering the synergies among information literacy and mobile learning in higher education

“…Born as an extension of e-learning, m-learning has evolved into a different frame (Parson et al, 2007;Vavoula and Sharples, 2009;Koole, 2009;Dennen and Hao, 2014;Hsu and Ching, 2015;Parsazadeh et al, 2018). M-learning has also been approached from a theoretical point of view as a domain with its identity (Traxler, 2009;Pachler et al, 2010;Kearney et al, 2012;Ko et al, 2015;Al-Said, 2020;Al-Rahmi, 2021). In this evolutionary line, the phenomenon of mobile information literacy emerges in the literature (Walsh, 2012;Havelka, 2013;Ng, 2013;Bergdahl, 2020;Blau et al, 2020;Matula, 2020;Moya and Camacho, 2020;Hidayat, 2022).…”

“…Al Said (2020) emphasized that "the effective integration of mobile technology into educational practices depends on factors related to people, design (content and technology), and institutions (policies and strategies)". That is why it turns into a challenge.…”

Mobile learning and communication: educational change?; a systematic review

“…Two aspects are intrinsically linked to the so-called micro-learning, an approach that subordinates learning through the fragmentation and segmentation of content. This idea is based on what was discussed in previous paragraphs, a current society flooded with information and content 24 h a day (Arrastia and Tackett, 2020; Al Said, 2020). The impossibility of acquiring everything moves toward very specific and concise content approaches, micro-learning, whose educational linkage can be ideal with ML or b-learning (Lai and Hwang, 2014).…”

Path Planning for the Fragmented Learning of College Students Based on Artificial Intelligence

“…With their advantages of rich content and ease-of-use, online education platforms and mobile education platforms have broken through the limits of conventional education mode in terms of fixed positions, fixed teaching environment, fixed teaching content, and fixed teachers [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. At the same time, students' learning requirements are developing toward the direction of searching for services of personalized learning and fragmented learning [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Most education platforms attempt to plan reasonable learning paths for college student users, but they have generally ignored differences in their learning time distribution preferences, learning habits, and learning requirements, and haven't taken the dynamic development trends of their learning states into consideration.…”