Teachers in the US have been increasingly adopting mobile devices for teaching, but little research has examined how pre-service teachers perceive mobile device integration in classrooms. To address this issue, the study developed a research model that explained factors affecting pre-service teachers’ intention to use mobile devices and the relationship among the factors. A total of 386 pre-ser...

The leitmotiv and the real objective of this dissertation are to focus on new learning paradigms and contexts around mobile devices and problemsolving competence. This research begins with a thorough review of literature and other related works. It analyses them and extracts a number of conclusions regarding the reasons for the lack of specific Knowledge and Learning Technologies for mobile lea...

introduction: the conventional method of teaching endodontics has some drawbacks. due to the small size of the oral cavity, students cannot closely observe the clinical procedure. use of new teaching modalities such as the intraoral camera may obviate this problem. this study assessed the effect of video-assisted clinical instruction in dentistry (vacid) on dental student’s knowledge and perfor...

This paper addresses perspectives of creative teaching and learning strategies in the new learning context of mobile technology, particularly for novice learners. The discussion presented here is framed by two case studies and uses an ethnographical approach, informed by participant observation to consider the experiences of users of mobile devices who do not have prior experience with informat...

The present study aimed to examine the barriers faced by Taiwanese university English as a foreign language (EFL) instructors when incorporating mobile-assisted learning (MALL) into their teaching, and explore how these are influenced instructors’ background characteristics. To assess variables, survey questionnaire was developed administered sample of 350 instructors. Additionally, interviews ...

This article focuses on educational research conducted at the newly merged UWC faculty of dentistry. The research emphasises the change in teaching methods employed to address the concerns experienced in teaching the new large classes as observed in the prosthetic techniques module. These educational interventions were conducted over 5 years and the study design included the principles of actio...

As a way of reinforcing classroom-based lessons, especially for continuous evaluation, the authors experimented with remote conferences and tutoring. These seminars were directed at three different groups of students: those who are struggling with the subject, those who were unable to attend all the lessons, and those seeking deeper insight. The authors experimented with different platforms for...

Cooperative learning has been found to affect different aspects of language learning by many researchers (e.g., Kagan, 1995; Kagan, 1999; Kessler, 1992; McGroarty, 1993). Likewise, mobile assisted language learning (MALL) has revealed significant impacts on the improvement of different language skills and components (e.g., Comas-Quinn et al. 2009; Divitini & Chabert, 2009; Motallebzadeh & Ganja...

This paper proposes a network-assisted mobile Virtual Private Network (mVPN) security scheme that provides secure remote access to corporate resources over the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS). The proposed scheme, which is based on IPsec, distributes the required security functionality for deploying a VPN between the involved user’s device and the mobile network limiting the co...

Mobile devices and wireless data connectivity are getting more and more common nowadays. In this networked world there are going to be dozens of new applications. Location Based Services will play a major role in this area. Especially, with the current and upcoming UMTS enabled mobile phones these applications are going to be available to a larger number of customers. The most promising approac...