TY - GEN
T1 - An Interactive Mobile Learning Platform for Teaching and Learning Chinese Language in Secondary School Environment
AU - Ng, S. C.
AU - Lui, Andrew K.
AU - Ngao, S. H.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - With the popularity of smart phones and mobile devices, mobile applications have been reached out to the field of education. Mobile learning not only promotes the interaction between teachers and students, but also improves the students' motivation to learn independently. This paper presents the use of a mobile learning platform to enhance the teaching and learning effectiveness for Chinese Language in a secondary school environment. The mobile application helps students get involved in classroom lessons through immediate interaction. It helps teachers monitor the learning progress and the performance of an individual student. The mobile learning platform involves a news board for announcement of updates news, a discussion board for discussing the academic issues, a quiz system for generating and delivery of multiple-choice and short questions, a scoreboard for displaying the scores of assessments and a whiteboard acted as a synchronized tool of discussion and survey page from the server.
AB - With the popularity of smart phones and mobile devices, mobile applications have been reached out to the field of education. Mobile learning not only promotes the interaction between teachers and students, but also improves the students' motivation to learn independently. This paper presents the use of a mobile learning platform to enhance the teaching and learning effectiveness for Chinese Language in a secondary school environment. The mobile application helps students get involved in classroom lessons through immediate interaction. It helps teachers monitor the learning progress and the performance of an individual student. The mobile learning platform involves a news board for announcement of updates news, a discussion board for discussing the academic issues, a quiz system for generating and delivery of multiple-choice and short questions, a scoreboard for displaying the scores of assessments and a whiteboard acted as a synchronized tool of discussion and survey page from the server.
KW - mobile learning applications
KW - secondary schools
KW - teaching and learning Chinese Language
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84904756544&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-45272-7_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-45272-7_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904756544
SN - 9783642452710
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 135
EP - 147
BT - Knowledge Sharing through Technology - 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in Teaching and Learning, ICT 2013, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in Teaching and Learning, ICT 2013
Y2 - 10 July 2013 through 11 July 2013
ER -