Paper Info
Title
Mobile phone text messaging to increase student participation: an experience in a blended course.
Abstract
Mobile technology is a suitable tool to be used for learning purposes. Many research studies prove the benefits of Mobile Learning (m-learning) in various education disciplines. Following this trend, our study examined a post-graduate class consisting of 474 learners in which Short Message Service (SMS) was used. The main goal was to find out if this technology would increase student participation in the course. The lecture series were implemented by using a blended learning approach, in which the courses combine face-to-face classes with online activities. Two groups of learners were created, control and experimental, in order to analyze the activities' fulfillment rate and the response time. The results from the data analysis showed that students who received mobile messaging outperformed significantly students from the control group. The experimental group had better results both in completion rate and response time. They were almost 20% more effective at completing their assigned activity and up to 78 hours faster than students from the control group. In addition, a questionnaire answered by the experimental group demonstrated that participants were very satisfied with the usage of this technology and were enthusiastic about the use of messages on the course.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2851613.2851702
SAC 2016: Symposium on Applied Computing Pisa Italy April, 2016
Field
DocType
ISBN
Mobile technology,Short Message Service,Completion rate,World Wide Web,Computer science,Response time,Mobile phone,Blended learning,Multimedia
Conference
978-1-4503-3739-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
17
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Edgar Marçal100.68
Rossana M. C. Andrade235458.76
Windson Viana320128.40
Eduardo Junqueira400.34
Rosemeiry Melo500.34