Producing and Introducing Mobile Books, as A New Model of Providing Learning Content in Medical Sciences
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- 作者：Majid Zare Bidaki ; Ali Rajabpour Sanati ; Fateme Rajai Ghannad
- 关键词：e-learning ; mobile phone ; m-book ; mobile learning
- 刊名：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
- 出版年：2013
- 出版时间：4 July, 2013
- 年：2013
- 卷：83
- 期：Complete
- 页码：99-102
- 全文大小：238 K
文摘
Mobile technology has provided valuable opportunity for continuous processes of learning. M-books are sources of e-learning content installed on mobile phones and may work as educational assistance for learners. This study aimed to introduce m-books as a novel e-learning content resource to university students and measure their attitudes towards it.
Using Java-based software, e-contents of four medical courses were converted into m-books and installed optionally on mobile phones of interested students. The other students in the same classes did not install m-books on their mobile devices. The attitude of both groups towards m-learning was obtained by pre-test and post-test and analyzed by t-test.
The use of m-books significantly changed the enthusiasm of students towards m-learning and increased their motivation to study course contents during dead time and in motion (p<0.005). This investigation introduced m- books as a highly welcomed educational assistance in medical sciences for the first time in Iran.