STUDY OF MOBILE LEARNING COURSE CONTENT APPLICATION AS A REVISION TOOL

• Main Author: HASHIM, AHMAD SOBRI
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/2766/1/full_master_thesis.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/2766/

Nowadays, mobile phones technologies are being utilized in the education field as a new electronic learning (e-learning) in transferring the knowledge to the learners. The combination of mobile phones technologies’ elements has influenced the way students learn, increase their performance and change the study environment. Mobile learning (m-learning) can overcome the limitation of the locations and times taken place for learners’ learning activities. This study aims to fulfil three main objectives; to design a suitable model that can be used to develop mobile learning course content application as a revision tool; to develop mobile learning course content application as a revision tool for System Analysis and Design (SAD) course called Mobile System Analysis and Design (MOSAD); to evaluate the effectiveness and usability of the developed application. The development of MOSAD application has taken several aspects into considerations such as learning theories, elements of mobile technologies and mobile learning development principles. This will ease the learners in using the developed application and giving the learners understanding of the topic discussed in the application. The developed application adopted ADDIE methodology into the MOSAD Life Cycle, as the Instructional Design Method. The MOSAD application has been developed using Java JCreator LE, Sun Java Wireless Toolkit version 2.5.2 and Microsoft Paint. The application contains several sections which include Objectives, Introduction, Course Contents, Summary, Quiz, References and Help. The MOSAD application is developed as a tool for second year Business and Information System (BIS) students of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) to do the revision as a preparation for any assessments such as tests and examinations. Quasi Experimental Design was conducted to 116 second year UTP BIS SAD course students. Various instruments such as heuristic evaluation, post test, questionnaires and observation have been designed to measure the effectiveness and usability of the developed application. The effectiveness and usability of the application were evaluated based on qualitative and quantitative analysis using SPSS vi software. Overall, the results show that MOSAD application is effective as a revision tool for SAD students and it fulfilled the usability needs.