An Experience Using Performance-Centered Mobile Learning to Enhance Fieldwork Education

An Experience Using Performance-Centered Mobile Learning to Enhance Fieldwork Education

Mobile performance support system (mPSS) focuses on helping students to perform an authentic task with minimum support of others, providing them with sufficient information such as expert advice and procedures, just-intime. Providing this support on a mobile device enables students to make their learning more efficient and relevant. Fieldwork has long been identified as providing students under...

Mobile Learning: Using Sms to Enhance Education Provision

This paper offers a framework for implementing successful mobile learning systems. The framework is based on established learning theory but contextualises this theory in the light of the issues and challenges of mobile technology. The paper then uses this framework to evaluate an SMS pilot project currently being conducted at a UK university.

Using mobile phones to enhance teacher learning in environmental education

Using Hybrid Cloud and Mobile Platforms to Enhance Online Education

Technology is a major part of the knowledge imparted in class, so instructors need to make use of advance techniques in teaching in order for students to be exposed to the opportunities offered by new technologies. This research is based on vMoodle, a virtual-machine-based online education system that addresses the gap in our current instructional technology by seamlessly integrating existing o...

Social media and anatomy education: Using twitter to enhance the student learning experience in anatomy.

Neuroanatomy is a difficult subject in medical education, with students often feeling worried and anxious before they have even started, potentially decreasing their engagement with the subject. At the University of Southampton, we incorporated the use of Twitter as a way of supporting students' learning on a neuroanatomy module to evaluate how it impacted upon their engagement and learning exp...