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Mobilusis mokymasis naudojant planšetinius kompiuterius: Lietuvos atvejo tyrimas
Mobile learning using tablet devices: Lithuanian case study

Author(s): Eugenijus Kurilovas, Irina Vinogradova
Subject(s): Education, Evaluation research, Social Informatics, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
Keywords: tablet devices; personalized mobile learning activities; ontologies; learning styles; quality; expert evaluation; motivation; learning results;

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to present the case study of teaching and learning, using tablet devices in Lithuania. It was accomplished while implementing Creative Classrooms Lab – the flagship European project in the area. In the paper, personalized mobile learning activities are analyzed using tablet devices. In CCL, the authors created and applied ontologies to interconnect these mobile learning activities with students’ learning styles, suitable mobile applications (apps), other Internet tools, and types learning objects. Teachers’ and students’ opinion on personalized mobile learning activities based on problem solving, collaboration, inquiry-based learning, and flipped class methods, is analyzed in the paper. Also, the quality of personalized mobile learning activities is compared with the quality of traditional learning activities based on textbooks and face-to-face knowledge transmission. A novel method for expert evaluation of mobile learning activities based on the Fuzzy AHP method to establish the weights of the mobile learning activity quality criteria is applied. The research results show that personalized mobile learning activities could help teachers to enhance students’ creativity and motivation and thus to improve their learning results.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 73
  • Page Range: 46-54
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English