scholarly journals AIM-Mobile Learning Platform 3.0: Design of new functionalities to integrate smartphones in the teaching-learning process

Author(s):  
Noemí Merayo ◽  
Alberto Medina ◽  
Guillermo Goyanes ◽  
Ignacio De Miguel ◽  
Juan Carlos Aguado ◽  
...  

The combination of Learning Management Systems (LMS) with smartphones is gaining importance in Higher Education studies. Therefore, we have designed a responsive virtual environment, AIM-Mobile Learning Platform, focus on integrating smartphones in class. It permits teachers to send real time questions and learning packets with multimedia resources to students through their smartphones. As the environment instantaneously processes every student response their continuous progress is automated. Moreover, the environment permits to manage teachers, subjects and students by means of a generic interface that can be applied in many educational disciplines. The new version includes more functionalities to promote their consolidation in Education. It integrates an installation and configuration package to provide high flexibility for Institutions as they can intall it in their own servers. Besides, we have complemented the existing quantitative evaluation system with a qualitative functionality based on positives and negatives taking into account the participation of students in class. Finally, the new version allows students to design questions with the aim to build knowledge. These strategies seek to increase the motivation, implication and attention of students in subjects, promoting a constant feedback inside class, which helps students to be more conscious of their self-learning process.

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 1753-1768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noemí Merayo ◽  
Inés Ruíz ◽  
Jorge Debrán ◽  
Juan C. Aguado ◽  
Ignacio de Miguel ◽  
...  

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Rego ◽  
Tiago Moreira ◽  
Francisco José García-Peñalvo

The main aim of the AHKME e-learning platform is to provide a system with adaptive and knowledge management abilities for students and teachers. This system is based on the IMS specifications representing information through metadata, granting semantics to all contents in the platform, giving them meaning. In this platform, metadata is used to satisfy requirements like reusability, interoperability and multipurpose. The system provides authoring tools to define learning methods with adaptive characteristics, and tools to create courses allowing users with different roles, promoting several types of collaborative and group learning. It is also endowed with tools to retrieve, import and evaluate learning objects based on metadata, where students can use quality educational contents fitting their characteristics, and teachers have the possibility of using quality educational contents to structure their courses. The learning objects management and evaluation play an important role in order to get the best results in the teaching/learning process.


Author(s):  
Atin Prihatin ◽  
Sudiyanto ◽  
Hermanu Joebagio

Evaluation is divided into several kinds, one of which is formative evaluation. Formative evaluation is appropriately used because the process involves students directly in the learning process and is able to improve students' conceptual understanding. The qualitative data were taken from a field research consisting of: 1) observations, observing the students' activities during teaching-learning process and their learning activities while doing evaluation; 2) Interviews, the techniques used were open interview, the interview conducted with the informants using interview guides and documentation analysis. From the results of the case study, some problems were found. To overcome the problems, a model of formative evaluation needs to be developed in order to provide fast feedback for the students and the teachers. The purpose of this research is to make formative evaluation model for ICT (Information and Communication Technology) learning in Vocational High Schools. The design of the research was research and development of a formative evaluation model. The instruments used were questionnaires for product feasibility tests including book review validation, pre-learning quiz instruments, post-learning quiz instruments and product-segment models. Based on the results of qualitative data, interviews were conducted to both students and ICT teachers, and documentation recorded. It was found that 90% teachers had not done formative evaluation system well. On one hand, the results of quantitative data analysis show that the results of student learning, especially ICT subjects were still relatively low. From the above data, it can be concluded that it is necessary to do research on the development of formative evaluation model to improve student learning outcomes in Vocational High Schools.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Masood Mohammed Abdul Aziz ◽  
Masud Imtiaz ◽  
Choudhury Habibur Rasul

Background: Medical institutes remained on complete shut down during the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic while Information Technology (IT) bridged the teaching learning between the students and teachers. The study objectives were to determine the opportunities and obstacles of teaching learning process and overall effectiveness of online classes over traditional classes. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from July 2020 to December 2020 between students and teachers of Khulna city Medical College, Khulna, Bangladesh. An online questionnaire was developed using google form containing four sections about different aspects of IT and teaching learning process. Results: Around 87% (160 vs 48) students and teachers responded to the questionnaire. The most preferred online teaching learning platform for students and teachers was zoom (84.4% vs 83.4%) and the favored devices were smart phone (96.2% vs 87.5%) followed by laptop computer (90.6% vs 83.3%). The majority felt connected to each other (82.5% vs 62.5%) and could work faster and effectively (75% vs 66.7%). Conversely, students (65.6%) felt online learning was more enjoyable than teachers (29.2%), where significant difference was found; (p= 0.006). Poor network (98.1% vs 79.1%) and affordability of mobile data (81.2% vs 66.7%) were the two main barriers among them. On-line teaching-learning neither increased student- teacher interaction (51.9% vs 66.7%), nor had better scope of asking question (52.5% vs 70.8%) and there was less scope of explaining details (52.5% vs 66.7%). Oral assessment was the most preferable (89.4% vs 83.3%), but the practical assessment (78.1% vs 83.3%) was the least preferable method for assessing students’ knowledge and skill online. Overall effectiveness of online classes over traditional classes was scored around 50% (±10%) by students and teachers (58.1% vs 62.5%). Conclusion: Despite having barriers like poor network, data affordability and limited computer and net usability, online classes played a pivotal role to continue the academic activities in a medical college during Corona pandemic. BIRDEM Med J 2022; 12(1): 45-50


Author(s):  
Siti Sulastri

<p>Learning to speak is not easy especially for the learners. The teacher always finds that the students or the learners are often reluctant because they are shy and difficult to express themselves in front of  other people, especially when they are being asked to give personal information or opinions. Besides they are rarely given a chance to practice their speaking. Because of less in practicing to speak English or even never, students are finally afraid of speaking. They are afraid of making mistakes, especially in grammar and pronounciation. To make the students have motivation in speaking, the teacher should be able to facilitate and encourage the students in order to speak English as much as possible. Therefore the teacher needs to create an atmosphere where the students will feel free to use language they learning, so the learners will not get bored in learning English.</p><p> </p><p>There were three steps in the implementation of demonstration technique, pre activity, while activity and post activity. In pre activity, the teacher always opened the lesson through greeting, asking the student’ condition and checking the attendance list. The teacher also prepared the materials every meeting. Then the started to introduce the material and explained the demonstration technique. In whilst activity, the teacher always asked the students to bring things that they would present in the following day. Then the teacher asked the students to discuss the steps with their friends how to make something before they started to demonstrate their properties. After discussing, the students began to demonstrate their properties while practicing it directly in front of the class. After demonstrating, other students began to respond their friend’s presentation. In post activity, the teacher observed the students activity and controlled their interaction during teaching learning process. She always gave reward to the best performance students, and corrected the students mistakes.</p><p> </p><p>After the students had the implementation of demonstration technique, their speaking ability showed that 75 % scores were increasing. So demonstration technique gave positive effect to the students’ speaking ability. And it can be said that demonstration technique was interesting for the students in learning  speaking.</p><p> </p><p>The student’ response toward the implementation of demonstration technique in the process of teaching speaking were good. It can be showed that most of them stated that the use of this technique were really interesting and made the students more active in class. They also agreed that it could help them practice speaking English bravely. It was because the teacher chose appropriate topics selected which was related to the students’ interest and daily lives.</p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Mery Sumiati ◽  
Fahmi Rizal ◽  
Muhammad Anwar

in the learning process of basic electricity and electronics subject, students face problems in understanding the material because it is considered as difficult without supported of adequate media. Then, the time allocation for basic electricity and electronics learning in the classroom is only four hours in a week, thus the material delivering is considered as not optimally to students. Therefore, teaching learning process needs to be supported by suitable and adequate media. The purpose of this research is mobile based learning media that is valid, practical and effective for Basic Electricity and Electronics subjects. The method of this research is Research and Development (R&D). This research and development used the Borg and Gall model that consists of several stages. The instrument used in this research is validation questionnaire that was given to material experts and media experts. The results obtained from this development research are a learning media based on mobile learning in the Basic Electricity and Electronics subjects. Based on research developed media are valid media, with the results of media validation of 0.84 and material validation of 0.74. The practical value of the results of the teacher's response of 94% and student responses of 84.24% were categorized very practical. From the posttest scores students get effective results that is 0.00 which is smaller than 0.005 which means that it is significant from the value of the experimental class and the control class.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Georgina Aguilera Saborit ◽  
Elsi Amalia Ferrer Carbonell ◽  
Adis Fiol Cuenca ◽  
Mirtha Olivero Herrera ◽  
Isabel Salgado Rodríguez

En el trabajo se presenta una concepción sobre los fundamentos teóricos de la evaluación de tareas de aprendizaje para potenciar la formación y desarrollo de la habilidad de expresión oral que se lleva a cabo en el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje del idioma inglés. Se exponen tres aspectos significativos dentro del sistema de evaluación: heteroevaluación, coevaluación y autoevaluación. Estos elementos presentan un carácter continúo, cualitativo e integrador en el logro del desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa, y de la formación de mecanismos con este fin en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera, por tanto son muy significativos en la formación y desarrollo de la habilidad de expresión oral PALABRAS CLAVE: tareas de aprendizaje; habilidad de expresión oral; gramática; léxico. SOME EXPERIENCES AND RESULTS IN THE APPLICATION OF LEARNING TASK IN ENGLISH TEACHING LANGUAGE ABSTRACT This work is based on a conception about theoretical foundations of learning tasks evaluation to potentiate the formation and development of oral skill that it is carried out in English language teaching learning process. Three significant aspects are exposed in the evaluation system: heteroevaluation, coevaluation, and autoevaluation. These elements show a continue, qualitative and integrative character to achieve the communicative skill, and the formation of mechanisms in the teaching-learning process of a foreign language to this end, therefore they are very significant in the formation and development of oral skill. KEYWORDS: learning tasks; oral skill; grammar; vocabulary.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kavita Kumari ◽  
Sadhana Singh Bisen

Teaching in contemporary times requires a shift from teacher centric to student centric processes. The present paper is based on secondary sources of data. It is an attempt to debate on the quality of education in India, depicting the problems faced by students within India and outside upon perusal of higher studies. It also illustrates the different methods of teaching and learning and explores the motivating factors behind self-learning.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Nurul Hidayah

Nowadays, we live in a digital age and New Normal of COVID-19. There is a massive migration of face-to-face teaching learning method to online or mobil- teaching and learning. It is required to do a physical distancing among school members to stop the spreading of the COVID-19. Mobile-learning is a must to keep education process continue while we remain to stay at home. The successful of mobile teaching and learning process depends on several aspects, one of them is students’ self-efficacy.  Students’ self-efficacy determines how hard students try to accomplish the task given and to the extent students commit taking  part in the mobile learning process during this pandemic COVID-19. It also determines to what extent students want to challenge themselves. To sum up, self-efficacy plays a crucial role in students’ achievement using mobile-learning method during this pandemic era. There is a significant relationship between feedback and self-efficacy. Therefore, educationalist is suggested to provide mobile-learning feedback to enhance students’ self-efficacy to keep the students commit to taking part in the teaching-learning process. An elaborated feedback affected students’ self-efficacy more although it is only a video feedback.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
Nadia Ghounane

With the dawn of high-tech phone applications and the constant spread of internet uses, social media networking sites have become a refuge for billions of users. Facebook is the leading social media tool and this research work aims to project light into the teaching/learning situation in the Algerian context, mainly the teaching of the English Language. A total of 80 Master’s students and 10 teachers from the Department of English Language and Literature at Saida were used as a case study. This is to provide an inkling on the most employed social platform in the teaching and learning process during the absence of face-to-face interaction. The research tools were mainly a questionnaire, an interview and a post-test assessment. From our results, Facebook was the second leading e-learning tool after Moodle platform during the pandemic. The paper recommends some strategies on how Facebook can be employed effectively in the teaching and learning process after the pandemic.   Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic, educational platforms, EFL learners, Facebook, higher education.


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