Assignment 3a - Literature Review

In our assignment 3a that i said in my last post, we need to do a literature review and need to do it in Open Office Writer. After all, we then done with our assignment.

Below is our assignment for 3a

LITERATURE REVIEW (PLAN, SEARCH, EVALUATE)


BY : AMALINA FATIN AZHAN (A135716)
       NUR JIHAN BINTI AZMIRRULNIZAM (A135728)   






MOBILE LEARNING


The usage of mobile devices for mobile learning is very increasingly popular. Students in universities nowadays are exposed to mobile learning in distance learning to enhance learning among the students community. The combination of wireless telecommunication and mobile computing is resulting in escalating transformation of educational world.
In order to efficiently achieve usability tailored around, the factors of cognitive, perceptual, motor capabilities and constraints of people in general should be considered. Other than that, the unique characteristics of the users’ physical and social work environment will help to enhance the uses of m-learning.




The use of mobile technologies in education is not restricted to exploiting them for learning activities. Education as a process relies on a great deal of coordination of learners and resources.




RESEARCH PROBLEM


As the mobile technologies are very familiar among the teachers and students nowadays, some implementation problems have been recognized. The small screen size and memory capacity of the mobile phones meant that no detailed feedback about question responses could be given. This is one of the lacks of detailed feedback for learners. Sometimes the questions are not relevant to what a particular student had studied. For the distance education, the compatibility across devices which is despite Java being promoted as a cross-platform environment, it was difficult to get the Java game function in all phones. Other than that, the SMS service was originally free but excessive demand forced the BBC to charge for messages and it makes the cost of some advanced smart phones is quite high. While the issue of small screen makes reading the text and web browsing quite difficult.




Significantly, the students found the hand-held, expansion sleeve and wireless card too large and heavy for comfortable use and the memory card of 54MB is not enough to save data.






WAYS TO OVERCOME


As today got loads of devices full with variety functions, the students can thus download lecture materials, audio and video lectures into iPod as it is a portable media player that allows a user to download music, podcasts, audio books and other video. The students can also share information files, work together on a project, provide visual directions or interface with the iPod through a microphone. The flexibility, instant connectivity, mobility associated with mobile learning has given rise to new delivery platforms for teaching and learning. So, some improvements in the learning environment will help such as both faculty and staff have access to ubiquitous learning environment, students have access to the same hardware and software as faculty, cost savings result in replacing desktop computers with laptops and hard wired networks with wireless one and standardization of platforms maximizes access and minimizes need for technical support.






With mobile technologies, teaching and learning process begin to make a breakthrough from small-scale pilots to large departmental and institutional implementations.
















REFERENCES


1)http://scholar.google.com.my/
2)http://books.google.com/
3)(UKM library)


Norbert Pachler, Ben Bachmair, John Cook, Gunther Kress, B.B. (2009). Mobile Learning.
(S.M.Jacob, 2008)
S.M.Jacob, B. I. (2008, March 19-21). The Mobile Devices and its Mobile Learning Usage Analysis. Retrieved July 26, 2011, from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.148.7623&rep=rep1&type=pdf
(Seong, 2006)
Seong, D. S. (2006). Usability Guidelines for Designing Mobile . Retrieved July 26, 2011, from http://delivery.acm.org.www.ezplib.ukm.my/10.1145/1300000/1292359/a25-seong.pdf?ip=202.185.34.1&CFID=34640944&CFTOKEN=74435498&__acm__=1311798311_d404a04c2af6eca0e6a1d5e9dfc0f06e


(Tia G. Tucker, 2009)
Tia G. Tucker, W. W. (2009). Mobile Learning for Just-In-Time Applications. Retrieved July 26, 2011, from http://delivery.acm.org.www.ezplib.ukm.my/10.1145/1570000/1566469/a17-tucker.pdf?ip=202.185.34.1&CFID=34640944&CFTOKEN=74435498&__acm__=1311798624_64660a0e6a439cc34e9fab92aed675ab








From my own opinion, i think that the mobile learning or also call as m-learning, is a good tool for student to learn everywhere they want. But i think ipod, ipad, and galaxy tab is one of the good toll of m-learning because it is very practical. It is design as a mobile learning because we can bring it everywhere and it is as a tool for learning. It is a touch screen.


While for laptop and netbook, it is also a mobile learning but it is not very practical for mobile learning. This is because, it is designed only for bring everywhere but not for mobile learning. It is also need student to type it using a keypad.