Designing and Developing a Mobile-Cloud E-Learning Application

• Main Author: Lucia Bernadette a/p Anthony, Lucia Bernadette
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2012
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/3911/1/12640_LUCIA_BERNADETTE_ANTHONY_Dissertation_1466.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/3911/

The mobile-cloud E-Learning application is an application software which can be downloaded into a mobile phone or a smart phone. This application software functions with the presence of a network, which is the Internet. The objectives of this project are to study on how the contents of the current existing E-Learning can be adapted to the mobile phones/smart phones which will then lead to designing and developing the contents of the mobile E-Learning application to suit the small screens of the mobile phones/smart phones using the cloud computing concept. This objective was made due to the problems identified during the research of the limitations of the current E-Learning system which are usability and accessibility problems. The scope of this study is to design and develop a mobile-cloud E-Learning application for the specifications of the BlackBerry OS 6 with the functions of viewing and posting announcements as well as downloading and uploading lecture notes by students, lecturers and management staffs respectively. The methodology used for the research are distributing online questionnaire and conducting interviews. On the other hand, the project methodology chosen is the prototyping method which requires users’ participation. Finally, up to date, the distributed online showed positive response from the responders whereby they support the mobile version of the E-Learning system.