Using Mobile Phones in Education

  • Authors:
  • Patricia Thornton;Chris Houser

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WMTE '04 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE'04)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We present three projects in mobile learning.First, we polled 333 Japanese university studentsregarding their use of mobile devices. 100% reportedowning a mobile phone. 99% send email on theirmobile phones, exchanging some 200 email messageseach week. 66% email peers about classes; 44% emailfor studying. In contrast, only 43% email on PCs,exchanging an average of only 2 messages per week.Only 20% had used a PDA.Second, we emailed 100-word English vocabularylessons at timed intervals to the mobile phones of 44Japanese university students, hoping to promoteregular study. Compared with students urged toregularly study identical materials on paper or web,students receiving mobile email learned more (p