Are Lecturers- Ready for Usage of Mobile Technology for Teaching?
Descriptive statistics was performed with the aim to achieve research objective of to investigate lecturers- usage of the mobile technology for teaching. A representative sample of 20 lecturers from the Faculty of Industrial Art & Design Technology of Universiti Industri Selangor (UNISEL), Malaysia was selected as the respondents. The result attested that lecturers fully accept the concept of mobility in learning and game play is appealing concept to support classroom learning. Subsequently, analogous experience on small size of keypad, screen resolution, and navigation could be the major problematic factors to students and affect their mobile learning process. Recommendation for future research is also presented.
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Services: Trends and Emerging Issues. (Online) Available:
http://www.oecd.org/pdf/M00020000/M00020422.pdf.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5092826/site/newsweek.
[3] NOP World. (2005). Backpacks, lunch boxes and cells? . . . Nearly half
of US teens and tweens have cell phones, according to NOP World
mKids study. (Online) Available:
http://www.nopworld.com/news.asp?go=news_item&key=151.
[4] Kinzie, S. (2005). Colleges' land lines nearing silent end. The
Washington Post. (Online) Available:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6955990.
[5] Agence France-Presse. (2005). Czech mobile phone penetration exceeds
100 percent in 2004. Technology.Designerz.com. (Online) Available:
http://technology.news.designerz.com/czech-mobile-phone-penetrationexceeds-
100-percent-in-2004.html.
[6] Borghese, M. (2005). Western Europe to be over 100% mobile by 2007.
All Headline News. (Online) Available:
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/2230775906.
[7] IT Facts. (2004). Mobile penetration in Taiwan and Hong Kong reaches
110% and 105.75%. Posting on IT Facts weblog. (Online) Available:
http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P2235.
[8] Simon, E. (2004). U.S. wireless use behind rest of world. Associated
Press. Posted to wireless network technologies forum on WirelessAdvisor.com. (Online) Available:
http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/archive/index.php/t-6009.html.
[9] J@pan Inc. (2001). Blowfish. (Online) Available:
http://www.japaninc.net/mag/comp/2001/04/apr01_blowfish.html.
[10] Central Intelligence Agency. (2005). The world factbook: Botswana.
(Online) Available:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bc.html.
[11] BBC Press Office. (2005). BBC launches English University Tour in
China. (Online) Available:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/03_march/3
0/china.shtml.
[12] Chapman, C. (2003). German students to learn by phone. The Times
Higher Education Supplement. (Online) Available:
http://www.thes.co.uk/search/story.aspx?story_id=93337.
[13] Villafania, A. (2004). UP group turns mobile phone into learning
platform. Infotech, INQ7.net. (Online) Available:
http://beta.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=3471.
[14] Andersson, M (2003). 3G f├Ñr ingen masspridning före 2007. (Online)
Available: http://www.uppsnappat.se/news!read.jspx?newsID=6281.
[15] Smith, T. (2003). Personal digital assistants (PDAs) in further and higher
education. Joint information Systems Committee (JISC). (Online)
Available:
http://www.techlearn.ac.uk/NewsDocs/editedpdasineducation.doc.
[16] Keegan, Desmond (2002). The future of learning: From e-learning to mlearning.
ZIFF Papiere 119, Fernuversitat Hagen.
[17] Traxler, J., and Kukulska-Hulme A. (2005). M-learning in developing
countries. Commonwealth of Learning.
[18] Passey, Don (1999). Anytime, anywhere learning project evaluation
focus. Lancaster: Lancaster University AAL.
[19] Zurita, G. and Nussbaum, M. (2006). A conceptual framework based on
Activity Theory for mobile CSCL. British Journal of Educational
Technology Vol 38 No 2 2007, pp. 211-235.
[20] Roschelle, J., and Pea, R. (2002). A walk on the WILD side: How
wireless handhelds may change CSCL. International Journal of
Cognition and Technology. (Online) Available:
http://newmedia.colorado.edu/cscl/79.pdf.
[21] Wagner, E. D. (2005). Enabling Mobile Learning. (Online) Available:
http//:www.educause.edu/er/erm05/erm0532.asp
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