Mobile

Similar to the six-word story from the flash fiction genre, the Six-Word Memoir is a writing genre for telling a personal story in six-words. In popular culture, it has become a global movement now featured in the book Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs: by Writers Famous and Obscure, on [in the US]…

Description Project-based learning is a method of inquiry-based learning where students are required to develop an end product using their knowledge of a specific topic. In most cases, the product is directly applicable or usable in the real world. Larmer and Mergendoller (2010) cite seven requisites that a good project-based learning experience must have: 1)…

Description Project-based learning is a method of inquiry-based learning where students are required to develop an end product using their knowledge of a specific topic. In most cases, the product is directly applicable or usable in the real world. Larmer and Mergendoller (2010) cite seven requisites that a good project-based learning experience must have: 1)…

Having students create content-related resources encourages them to feel ownership of what they are learning and influences the level of engagement perceived toward the class (O’Neill, 2005). There are a variety of free mobile applications that facilitate this activity.

Description Using mobile devices for class activities to give students hands-on experience with applications they may use in their professional career. A wide-range of mobile applications (apps) have been created specifically for discipline-specific activities or may be adapted easily for such purposes. Link to example artifact(s) Link to scholarly reference(s) Cradler, J., McNabb, M., Freeman,…

Faculty can help lower the cost of a textbook by adopting an eTextbook or a printed book that is available in an electronic format.

Description Students are increasingly using smart phones for academic activities. In a survey report conducted at the University of Central Florida, it was found that ownership of mobile devices (99.8%) remains high. 82% of student respondents indicated that they had used a mobile app for learning at least once each week. How can teachers harness the…

Research has shown that technology doesn’t really guarantee learning, but meaningful uses of technology can engage students but also improve learning (Kozma, 1994; Mayer, 2003). It is important to evaluate technology adoption practices for continuous improvement in teaching and learning. The technology acceptance model (TAM) is a survey instrument that has been widely-used to investigate…