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Direct linkHalaweh, Mohanad – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
Smartphones are developing rapidly and continually with new features that make them widely used in many contexts. This paper is to reflect on students' behaviours of using smartphones spontaneously (unplanned use) in the classroom, in a university in Dubai city in UAE. This reflection shall address the following questions: How can the instructors…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
Dobbins, Chelsea; Denton, Philip – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
This paper is a report of an investigation in which mobile technologies were used during large lecture-type sessions in tandem with the Textwall™ software. This online program is able to receive and present messages from students' devices that the lecturer may then share. It also can be used to collect student votes on multiple-choice questions,…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Lecture Method, Large Group Instruction
Exploring Flipboard to Support Coursework: Student Beliefs, Attitudes, Engagement, and Device Choice
Hornik, Steven; deNoyelles, Aimee; Chen, Baiyun – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
The purpose of the study is to explore the use of a mobile application called Flipboard, which facilitates the curation of digital content into a magazine-like product, to engage students in class discussion and participation in a college course. Research questions include: (1) What were students' beliefs and attitudes regarding the use of…
Descriptors: College Students, Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Sykes, Edward R. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
Every aspect of our daily lives has been touched by the ubiquitous nature of mobile devices. We have experienced an exponential growth of mobile computing--a trend that seems to have no limit. This paper provides a report on the findings of a recent offering of an iPhone Application Development course at Sheridan College, Ontario, Canada. It…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes
Yusup, Yusri – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
This paper examines the status of iPad (1st generation) use as a learning device among primary school teachers enrolled in an undergraduate bachelor of education program at a private university in Malaysia. A survey was conducted on 93 teachers who were given iPads to assist them in this online distance-learning program in the March 2011 semester.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Elementary School Teachers, Bachelors Degrees
Kenwright, Kathy – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2009
The Clinical Laboratory Science (CLS) department at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is investigating the use of audience response systems (ARS) in its lecture style classes. ARS, or clickers, as they are more commonly called, are wireless hand held devices about the size of a small calculator. Students may use clickers in class…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Self Evaluation (Individuals), Audience Response, Tests
