Browsing by Subject "mobile devices"

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    An interactive mobile lecturing model: enhancing student engagement with face-to-face sessions
    (IGI Global, 2013) Boyinbode, Olutayo; Ng'ambi, Dick; Bagula, Antoine
    Although use of podcasts and vodcasts are increasingly becoming popular in higher education, their use is usually unidirectional and therefore replicates the transmission mode of traditional face-to-face lectures. In this paper, the authors propose a tool, MOBILect, a mobile lecturing tool that enables users to comment on lecture vodcasts using mobile devices, and aggregated comments become an educational resource. The vodcasts are generated through Opencast Matterhorn and YouTube. The tool was evaluated at the University of Cape Town with students’ own devices. The paper reports on the architecture of the MOBILect, its framework for student-vodcast interaction, and evaluation results. The paper concludes that the MOBILect has potential for use as a supplement to the traditional face-to-face lectures especially in scenarios of large classes, or where the medium of instruction is not the students’ mother tongue.
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    Position Paper: Personal Mobile Devices and Laptops as Learning Tools
    (2015) Brown, Cheryl; Pallitt, Nicola
    This document was originally co-authored as a position paper for Higher Education South Africa (HESA). It discusses the usefulness of personal mobile devices and laptops as learning tools in higher education learning environments, examining the affordances of these devices both in and beyond the classroom. It provides an overview of current uses in South African universities (where laptop and tablet initiatives are still relatively novel) and offers recommendations for the successful implementation of such projects.