Using Mobile Devices & Social Media in Supporting Engineering Education
Smart phones are used worldwide due to their enhanced features, such as computing power, increased storage capacity, attractive interface, Wi-Fi connectivity and upload capabilities. These are personal, portable and being increasingly used to assist students’ learning that creates new educationa...
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/166/ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp |
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| Summary: | Smart phones are used worldwide due to their enhanced
features, such as computing power, increased storage capacity,
attractive interface, Wi-Fi connectivity and upload capabilities.
These are personal, portable and being increasingly used to
assist students’ learning that creates new educational
opportunities for students at university. Social media ,on the
other hand, has emerged in the last decade as a dominant
feature of the technology landscape, especially for our current
generation of digital-native students. Leveraging these tools
for higher education in general, and engineering education in
particular, should be of immediate and pressing concern for
educators. This research will investigate how students at
university use smart phones with respect to engagement and
interaction in various learning activities. It will study how
students engage with learning tasks and what social
interactions occur when they are trying to achieve their
academic goals. Also, the tools/software that supports their
academic goals in different learning settings or activities will
be considered. This paper shows the background of the
research to promote engineering students’ learning curve. |
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