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Lúcia Pombo – Education & Training, 2023
Purpose: This paper provides a general review related to a wider project, aimed at developing a mobile game-based app on Education for Sustainable Development within a smart learning city environment. It aims to address guidelines for a new action-oriented transformative pedagogy that is essential for the development of key competencies for…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Telecommunications
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Yu, Ke; Motlhabane, Monicah Gao – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2022
Aim/Purpose: Social media platforms have been increasingly incorporated into teaching and learning. However, studies using mixed methods to explore WhatsApp's potential to broaden online teaching and learning remain limited. Background: This study reports the experiences and perspectives of undergraduate students in terms of their WhatsApp usage…
Descriptors: Social Media, Online Courses, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Eryilmaz, Selami – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2021
Many definitions of education have been made from past to present. The definition of education, which is generally defined as the process of creating behaviour change in the desired direction in individuals, has a history as old as human history. From another point of view, education is the sum of the process that takes the individual from birth…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Steverson, Anne; Cmar, Jennifer L.; Antonelli, Karla – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2022
Introduction: This article describes the field test of "4to24," a transition application (app) for parents of and students with visual impairments. In this stage of the development process, researchers evaluated the app's usability and gained feedback on app use and experience from end users. Methods: Participants, including 27 parents…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Visual Impairments, Parents, Parent Attitudes
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Tawafak, Ragad M.; Alfarsi, Ghaliya; Jabbar, Jasiya – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2021
With restrictions on face-to-face clinical consultations within the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges faced by healthcare systems in delivering patient care, alternative information technologies like telemedicine and smartphones play a crucial role. A wide variety of smartphone applications employs high-tech mathematical and programming…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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Papastergiou, Marina; Kanaros, Dimitrios; Papamichou, Aspasia; Vernadakis, Nikolaos – Educational Media International, 2021
The aim of this study was the investigation of the impact of a year-long, student-centered Physical Education (PE) project, in which mobile applications for Physical Activity (PA) and nutrition monitoring, exergames and an online social learning platform were utilized, on students' PA, sedentary behavior and food selection criteria. The study…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Physical Activity Level
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Okai-Ugbaje, Safiya; Ardzejewska, Kathie; Imran, Ahmed – Education Sciences, 2020
The extant literature on mobile learning in higher education has mainly focused on students and academics. This study conducted in a Nigerian university considered a wider group of stakeholders (students, academics, IT personnel, and administrative leaders) in its investigation of stakeholders' awareness, willingness, and readiness for mobile…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Wang, Yu-Yin; Wang, Yi-Shun; Lin, Hsin-Hui; Tsai, Tung-Han – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
With the proliferation of paid mobile learning applications (m-learning apps), understanding how to assess their success has become an important issue for academics and practitioners. Based on the information systems (IS) success models and the value-based adoption model, this study developed and validated a multidimensional model for assessing…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology
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Chen, Jason Chi Wai – International Journal of Music Education, 2020
This pilot study focuses on the use of mobile tablets to allow secondary students to compose in class with the application "GarageBand." The empirical research has two aims: to demonstrate the possibility of using mobile tablets as a composing device, and to examine professional practices for using mobile technologies in music learning.…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Secondary School Students, Musical Composition
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France, Derek; Lee, Rebecca; Maclachlan, John; McPhee, Siobhán R. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
The extent of how mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, are seamlessly incorporated into the personal day-to-day life is not often considered by University instructors. Unfocused incorporation of mobile technologies into the classroom can de-emphasize intended learning objectives if students struggle to use the technology itself or by…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices