Near Field Communication Interactive Learning System (NILES) for Blended Learning: A Pervasive Social Networking Services

Abstract

Nowadays, e-learning has emerged as a prospective solution to the learning process. E-learning is known as a learning tool which based on technology to deliver learning material electronically through computer network. The involvement of the students and the lecturers in the existing learning system is not interactive as they use it as a medium to deliver notes and receive notes only. The traditional attendance system which passes the attendance sheet around the class or by calling names is also not productive and time consuming to process the data into attendance statistics. Therefore, an interactive learning system embedded with NFC attendance system using NFC enabled smartphone known as NFC Interactive LEarning System (NILES) is proposed to take attendances and lecturers can conduct their classes in a more interactive way in school, college or university through the usage of social media and blended learning tools. The proposed solution can provide a convenient and portable classroom learning system to the universities and colleges to improve the interaction learning process among students and reduce the workload of lecturers in processing the attendance statistics. This becomes the characteristics of Pervasive Social Networking (PSN).