Mobile Mediated Learning and Teachers Education in Less Resourced Region
Conventional educational practices, do not offer all
the required skills for teachers to successfully survive in today’s
workplace. Due to poor professional training, a big gap exists across
the curriculum plan and the teacher practices in the classroom. As
such, raising the quality of teaching through ICT-enabled training and
professional development of teachers should be an urgent priority.
‘Mobile Learning’, in that vein, is an increasingly growing field of
educational research and practice across schools and work places. In
this paper, we propose a novel Mobile learning system that allows the
users to learn through an intelligent mobile learning in cooperatively
every-time and every-where. The system will reduce the training cost
and increase consistency, efficiency, and data reliability. To establish
that our system will display neither functional nor performance
failure, the evaluation strategy is based on formal observation of
users interacting with system followed by questionnaires and
structured interviews.
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learning: small devices, big issues in Technology Enhanced Learning:
Principles and Products”, Kaleidoscope Legacy Book, Springer-Verlag,
Berlin, 2008.
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the design of collaborative Mobile learnin”, Vaxjo University, 2008.
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e4Africa, 14 January, Retrieved April 14, 2014 from
http://www.e4africa.co.za/?p=4228, 2012
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[1] Ministry of Education, Afghanistan. Learning for all ministerial meeting.
September 2013.
[2] Ministry of Education, Afghanistan.National Education Strategic Plan
(2010-2014).
[3] B. Shneiderman, “Leonardo's Laptop”, Human Needs and the New
Computing Technologies MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 2002.
[4] S. Price, Y. Rogers, D. Stanton., and H. Smith, “A new conceptual
framework for CSCL” Supporting diverse forms of reflection through
multiple interactions, the International Conference on CSCL'03, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Bergen, Norway, pp. 513-522, 2003.
[5] J. Lav, and E. Wenger, “Situated Learning”, Legitimate Peripheral
Participation Cambridge University Press, 1991.
[6] Jean Piaget, “to understand is to invent the future of education”, Viking
press, New York, 1973.
[7] J.S. Brown, and P. Duguid, “The Social Life of Information”, Boston,
Harvard Business School Press,2000
[8] A. Bin Subaih, "Creating a Virtual Training Environment for Traffic
Accident, PhD thesis”, University of Sheffield, Retrieved from
http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/s.maddock/research/binsubaih/Bin
Subaih_thesis.pdf, 2007
[9] A.H. Feinstein, S. Mann, and D.L Corsun, “Charting the experiential
territory clarifying definitions and uses of computer simulations, games,
and role play”, Journal of Management Development, 21(10):732-744,
2002.
[10] Y.S. Chee, “Refocusing learning on pedagogy in a connected world On
the Horizon”, 10(4):7-13, 2002.
[11] World Bank, “The World Development Report”, Quoted in C. Blurton,
“New Directions of ICT-Use in Education”, 1998.
[12] R. Pea, and H. Maldonado, “WILD for learning: Interacting through
new”, 2006.
[13] Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Afghanistan,
Telecom statistic. Retrieved from http://www.mcit.gov.af, April 25,
2014.
[14] E. Klopfer, K. Squire, and H. Jenkins, “Environmental detectives: PDAs as a window into a virtual simulated world, Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education” Proceedings. IEEE International Workshop
on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education, 2002.
[15] M. Sharples, M. Milrad, I.A. Sánchez, and G. Vavoula, “Mobile
learning: small devices, big issues in Technology Enhanced Learning:
Principles and Products”, Kaleidoscope Legacy Book, Springer-Verlag,
Berlin, 2008.
[16] D. Spikol,“Playing and learning across locations identifying factors for
the design of collaborative Mobile learnin”, Vaxjo University, 2008.
[17] I. Graham, “CAPS using cell phones to assist teachers and parents”,
e4Africa, 14 January, Retrieved April 14, 2014 from
http://www.e4africa.co.za/?p=4228, 2012
[18] M. Davis, “Education week: E-Learning Goes Global
[19] Teaching Biology Project”, About Teaching Biology Project, Retrieved
April 14, 2014 from http://www.teachingbiologyproject.org.za/about/,
2012.
[20] “Mobile Learning for Teacher in Africa and the Middle East”, United
Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2012.
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the required skills for teachers to successfully survive in today’s
workplace. Due to poor professional training, a big gap exists across
the curriculum plan and the teacher practices in the classroom. As
such, raising the quality of teaching through ICT-enabled training and
professional development of teachers should be an urgent priority.
‘Mobile Learning’, in that vein, is an increasingly growing field of
educational research and practice across schools and work places. In
this paper, we propose a novel Mobile learning system that allows the
users to learn through an intelligent mobile learning in cooperatively
every-time and every-where. The system will reduce the training cost
and increase consistency, efficiency, and data reliability. To establish
that our system will display neither functional nor performance
failure, the evaluation strategy is based on formal observation of
users interacting with system followed by questionnaires and
structured interviews.
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