Transcript User requirements analysis for use of mobile phones in

Use of Mobile Phone
Technologies in the
Classroom Context
Chrisina Draganova
School of Computing, Information
Technology and Engineering
University of East London
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Motivation
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Enhance student learning
Improve student attention and motivation
Give students an opportunity to reflect on the
presented content
Provide an opportunity to every student to
participate in the classroom interaction
Promote active learning environment
Provide feedback for the lecturer to adjust
teaching approaches
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Outline
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Related studies
Web based MCQs system
SMS – Edutxt
UEL uHavePassed
Summary
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Interactive classroom
technologies - 1
Bluetooth based systems
 “TV remote” system (Bär H et. al. 2006)
 submission of text messages
 submission of feedback
 submission of answers to decision polls or
multiple choice questions
 retrieving information
 browsing through a current set of messages
 graphical overviews of correct and incorrect
answers to multiple choice quizzes
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Interactive classroom
technologies - 2
SMS/MMS systems
 “TXT-2-LRN” (Scornavacca E., Marshall S., 2007) submit questions or comments to the lecture’s laptop
via SMS, submit answers to multiple choice quizzes
 “Mobile Phone Extension to Ubiquitous Presenter”
(Lindquist D et. al. 2007)- text message submission,
photo submission of hand written answers and/or
graphics via MMS to mathematical, code writing and
diagrammatic problems
 “Pls Turn Ur Mobile On” (Markett C. et. al., 2004)
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Interactive classroom
technologies - 3
“Turning Point Technologies”
(www.turningtechnologies.com)
 Integrate with MSOffice
 Collects and organise student response data
 Alter the sequence of slides according to student
responses
 Instant feedback for lecturer
 Integrates with Learning Management Systems
(WebCT and Blackboard)
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Main objectives of “Mobile
Active Learner” Project
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To enable interaction during a lecture session using
mobile phones via free of cost connection
To provide opportunities to every student to become
actively engaged through the use of appropriate activities
To analyse the submissions from students using relevant
data analysis software
To provide instant individual feedback to each student
sent to their mobile phone
To provide instant aggregated feedback to the lecturer
about the level of understanding of the students via
suitable interface
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Added benefits
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Flexibility
Using devices and software that is
already available
Integrating intelligent data analysis that
is already developed and initially tested
Providing diagnostic feedback to
students
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Web system – student interface - 1
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Web system – student interface - 2
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Web system – student interface - 3
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Web system – student interface - 4
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Web system – lecturer interface - 1
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Web system – lecturer interface
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Web system – lecturer interface - 3
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Txttools – www.txttools.co.uk
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Txttools
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UEL uHavePassed
http://uel.uhavepassed.com/
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UEL uHavePassed - 1
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UEL uHavePassed - 2
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UEL uHavePassed - 3
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UEL uHavePassed – Summary of
results
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UEL uHavePassed– Practice test
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Summary
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Experiments with different systems
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Web based system
Edutxt
UEL uHavePassed
Further work
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Incorporate intelligent feedback
Wider application and evaluation of these system
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