As mobile devices become daily necessaries, almost learners have their own mobile devices, especially such as cellular phone or smart phone. And mobile ecosystem increases competitiveness and has influence over daily life and especially e-learning. However, mobile devices are not cheap and mobile communication fee is very expensive. Hence, mobile learning could create digital divides between the rich and the poor. Thus mobile learning should be carefully and continuously considered. Mobile communication services, such as SMS (short message service) and MMS(Multimedia Messaging Service) are very efficient and useful e-learning tools. Definitely MMS is more efficient than SMS, but MMS receive and send fee is still expensive and SMS receive is free. In this paper, we propose blended e-learning scenarios that use SMS as learning instruction and feedbacks to students. Students receive SMS from a lecturer or a tutor without cost. When students receive free SMS from a lecturer or a tutor, the students will react to instruction of a lecturer or a tutor without cost on their desk-top computer. There are two kinds of SMS. One is SMS that is for homework, references and class events. Another is SMS that is for pop-up quiz and short answered examinations. Because of free SMS, our proposed blended mobile learning scenarios could support more interactive e-learning environments between lecturers and students. With SMS, we design and propose blended examination scenario, blended assignment scenario, blended tutorial scenario and blended learning activity encourage scenario. Proposed blended e-learning scenarios will fit for poor students so that students learning conation and learning motivation would be improved.
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Paper presented at the 28th Asian Association of Open Universities Conference (28-30 October 2014; Hong Kong)
The design of economical blended mobile learning with SMS
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