Title
Mobile Based User-Centered Learning Environment for Adult Absolute Illiterates.
Abstract
Education plays a vital role in the success of any community. Countries with increased literacy rate have improved their status on the world map. In recent years, the use of e-learning methodologies has been significant. However, majority of the previous methodologies are focused on the formal education or toddlers. The technoliteracy solutions for children are not suitable for adults and those designed specifically for adults are text dominant and require the users of these applications to be functional literate. Moreover, users' interest (sense of belonging) is not taken into consideration in existing solutions. To address the aforementioned issues, a user study is conducted to collect users' interests. Another highlight of our study is that we develop our system as a mobile device application to facilitate our target user group. Based on the collected interests, a 3D virtual learning environment is designed and developed for adult illiterate learners. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed environment, an experimental study is carried out with users. The results show that the proposed learning environment significantly improves adults learning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1155/2016/1841287
MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Field
DocType
Volume
Literacy,Virtual learning environment,World Wide Web,Sense of belonging,Adult education,Computer science,World map,Mobile device,Learning environment,Multimedia
Journal
2016
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1574-017X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Inayat ur-Rehman100.34
Azra Shamim200.68
Tamim Ahmed Khan3285.24
Manzoor Elahi400.34
Sajjad Mohsin5173.68