Interactive Mobile Learning Platform at the British University in Egypt

Abstract

In recent years, mobile technology has been rapidly developed and now plays an important role in education. Traditional course offerings are on the change towards M-Learning. However, such shift requires combined and integrated efforts from course planners, system designers, software developers, teachers, and students. This paper introduces the design of an online M-Learning interactive teaching and learning platform that has been developed and deployed at the British University in Egypt (BUE). Different real cases of interactive learning applications have been designed, developed, integrated within the platform and evaluated by students. Feedbacks from students show promising results on different aspects; 1) significant improvement of engagement in the learning processes, 2) better understanding of abstract concepts through the visualization interactivity provided through the learning applications. In addition, students showed motivation to use this kind of ICT-based learning techniques in different subjects. Although different types of applications have been developed and integrated within the platform, focus will be given on the design and implementation of interactive online tools where students can use calculations/simulations and visualization activities to better understand and even imagine the effect of different parameters on the behavior of targeted concept.