Advances in Smart Systems Research

Publisher Future Technology Publications
Vol. 1 No. 1 Workshop Papers from KES Conferences 2011
Journal ISSN 2050-8662
 
Article TitleThe First Step for E-learning by Combination of Handheld Device and Course Management System
Primary AuthorHideyuki Kanematsu
Other Author(s) Kiyotaka Atsumi; Tatsuya Shirai; Shigehiro Ishihara
Pages 38 - 44
Article ID k10w-008
Publication Date 27-Jun-12
Abstract

e-learning has become important with the progress of education digitization. It is very important for us to develop the educational contents for e-learning materials. However, it has a quite different, but very important factor. That is the equality of opportunity for education. As for e-learning, students must have accesses to the education materials completely equally. However, it is not so easy for them to have the complete equality by having at least one computer per student in real life. It depends on financial situations of students? families and also on the financial situations of the educational organizations. Apart from PC, handheld cell phones could be used instead of mobile PCs to some extent. In this study, a handheld cell phone was picked up and used to have accesses to a course management system (CMS) based on Moodle instead of PCs. And the usability was analyzed through a questionnaire and confirmed as the first step for e-learning class in the future.

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Remarks Published in 'Groundbreaking Research Workshop' at the KES2010 Conference, 8-10 September 2010, Cardiff, UK.