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Smartphone Based E-Learning

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Title: Smartphone Based E-Learning
Authors: Gopalan, A
Karavanis, S
Payne, T
Sloman, M
Item Type: Conference Paper
Abstract: Children often attend schools intermittently in rural areas in Africa and India due to socio-economic conditions which make pupils augment their family income by working. An e-Learning solution could aid in raising the level of education by making it easier for children to fit schoolwork into the day, acting as a complement to when they are able to attend school. Traditional distance learning solutions based on computers are not suitable due to lack of infrastructure support. In this paper, we evaluate both text and voice based smartphone prototype environments which could provide the tools and services for pupils to download educational content, interact with teachers as well as other pupils to discuss topics. These have been implemented as a proof-of- concept and the initial evaluation feedback, although not from target users, was very promising. We intend to re-implement the prototype and do a proper evaluation with rural-area school children.
Content Version: Accepted version
Issue Date: 31-May-2011
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/6386
Publisher Link: http://www.csedu.org/
Publisher: SciTePress
Presented At: 3rd Int. Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2011)
Start Page: 1
End Page: 12
Copyright Statement: © 2011 SciTePress
Conference Location: Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands
Appears in Collections:Distributed Software Engineering