Paper Info
Title
MILCA - A Mobile and Interactive Learning Environment on Campus
Abstract
This paper aims at introducing a new platform for mobile and interactive learning targeted as an effective communication medium between the professor and students during lectures. In this System, Students and professors will be equipped with a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) capable device (which may he PDAs. Laptops. or Tablet PCs) that is connected on the Campus-wide 802.11b Wireless LAN. During lectures. students cat ask questions, response to questions or give immediate feedback on the lecture simply by composing an MMS message and sending it to the professor. The professor himself can choose to immediately respond to the comments or to delay his response so as not to disrupt the flow of the lecture. Interactive quizzes can also be carried out during lecture Simply by having the professor sending out the question to Students in MMS format, receiving.! their responses, and reviewing the results on the Spot. The main advantage of this learning System is that MMS messaging is easily extensible to the mobile GSM networks. SO Students arc not restricted to use it only on campus. This system is particularly beneficial in engineering education, Since engineering students are generally tech-savvy, and therefore Can easily adapt to this medium. This learning system will also encourage students to he more participative in the learning process. as students tend to be shy to speak tip in front of large groups.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-87783-7_23
COMMUNICATIONS IN COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Interactive Learning,Large Class Learning,Immediate Lecture Feedback,Multimedia Messaging Service.
Educational technology,Interactive Learning,GSM,World Wide Web,Computer science,Interactive learning environment,Engineering education,Synchronous learning,Wireless lan,Multimedia,Multimedia Messaging Service
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
19
1865-0929
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kin Choong Yow126462.38
Sintiani Dewi Teddy241.55