Mobile based collaborative learning tool to facilitate instructor-mediated informal learning in agriculture

2015 Fifteenth International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer) Pub Date : 2015-08-01 DOI:10.1109/ICTER.2015.7377673

U. Dissanayeke, A. Perera, K. Hewagamage, G. Wikramanayake

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This paper presents the development and testing of an android application (Agri-Lessons) to facilitate instructor-mediated informal learning in an agricultural community. In a previous experiment, this evaluation was carried out using a mobile SMS based Twitter application and basic phones to find out the effectiveness of mobile learning in agriculture. In this experiment, we are presenting a mobile application that is developed for Android based smartphones, to promote instructor-mediated informal learning. The paper also presents the evaluation of the app to justify effectiveness. The evaluation was carried out considering a pre-test and post-test to find out knowledge gain. A questionnaire was used to collect the user feedback in an anonymous way. The statistics of evaluation shows that the Agri-Lessons app as highly effective as a learning tool. The App can be further improved to modify the user interface, include a few more functionalities and Sinhalese language. In the future research this app can be improved to include multiple user groups among the farming community.

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基于移动的协作学习工具，以促进教师介导的农业非正式学习

本文介绍了android应用程序(Agri-Lessons)的开发和测试，以促进农业社区中教师介导的非正式学习。在之前的实验中，我们使用基于移动短信的Twitter应用程序和基本手机进行了该评估，以了解移动学习在农业中的有效性。在这个实验中，我们展示了一个为基于Android的智能手机开发的移动应用程序，以促进教师介导的非正式学习。本文还介绍了应用程序的评估，以证明有效性。通过前测和后测进行评价，了解学生的知识增益情况。采用问卷调查的方式，以匿名方式收集用户反馈。评价统计表明，Agri-Lessons应用程序作为一个学习工具是非常有效的。该应用程序可以进一步改进，修改用户界面，包括一些更多的功能和僧伽罗语。在未来的研究中，这个应用程序可以得到改进，以包括农业社区中的多个用户群体。

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