Paper Info
Title
TsoiChem: A Mobile Application to Facilitate Student Learning in Organic Chemistry
Abstract
Mobile devices, such as the iPhone, are potentially powerful learning tools, with their touch screen capabilities and highly interactive and engaging applications available for download. The dependence of today's student on mobile devices also contributes to the possibility of increased student engagement and time-on-task -- both factors in student success. This paper describes the development of a mobile application (app) created as a learning tool for organic chemistry students. The learning needs of organic chemistry students studying the topic "functional groups" were first identified, appropriate learning theories were chosen, and then a functional prototype of the mobile application "TsoiChem" was designed and then created using Apple's iOS Software Development Kit. Unlike many existing chemistry applications, this application leverages the multi-touch feature of iPhone to teach fundamentals of functional groups to students and incorporated several learning theories and models in doing so. The ways in which learning theories and models helped inform the design of this mobile app will be discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ICALT.2011.167
ICALT
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile devices,chemistry computing,facilitate student learning,mobile device,mobile application,functional group,learning models,powerful learning tool,functional groups,iphone,appropriate learning theory,software tools,mobile app,organic chemistry,organic chemistry student,existing chemistry application,apple iphone application,learning theory,mobile learning,chemistry education,mobile application development,engaging application,ios software development,multi-touch feature,functional prototype,organic chemistry students,mobile computing,learning tool,computer aided instruction,mobile communication,chemistry,materials,visualization,student engagement
Mobile computing,Mobile app,Organic chemistry,Computer science,Learning theory,Chemistry education,Download,Mobile device,Human–computer interaction,Student engagement,Multimedia,Software development
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2161-3761 E-ISBN : 978-0-7695-4346-8
978-0-7695-4346-8
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mai Yin Tsoi171.90
Sonal Dekhane2156.48