An Evaluation of Learners’ Satisfaction toward Mobile Learning
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This study explored learners’ satisfaction toward a mobile learning system designed to enhance novices’ reflective thinking and problem-solving. Instructional multimedia were provided via mobile devices to facilitate novices’ learning of the Fedora system. Learners’ reflective thinking was enhanced by responding to the reflection prompts and summarizing what they had learned from the instructional multimedia. The results showed that learners satisfied with the employed mobile learning as measured in terms of willingness-to-use, ease-of-use, and helpfulness toward the employed mobile learning. It was concluded that a pedagogically well-designed mobile learning system not only possesses the potentiality in facilitating learning but also satisfies the learners. Key-Words: mobile learning, multimedia learning, reflective thinking
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