STUDY OF MOBILE LEARNING COURSE CONTENT APPLICATION AS A REVISION TOOL

Nowadays, mobile phones technologies are being utilized in the education field as a
new electronic learning (e-learning) in transferring the knowledge to the learners. The
combination of mobile phones technologies’ elements has influenced the way students
learn, increase their performance and change the study environment. Mobile learning
(m-learning) can overcome the limitation of the locations and times taken place for
learners’ learning activities. This study aims to fulfil three main objectives; to design
a suitable model that can be used to develop mobile learning course content
application as a revision tool; to develop mobile learning course content application as
a revision tool for System Analysis and Design (SAD) course called Mobile System
Analysis and Design (MOSAD); to evaluate the effectiveness and usability of the
developed application. The development of MOSAD application has taken several
aspects into considerations such as learning theories, elements of mobile technologies
and mobile learning development principles. This will ease the learners in using the
developed application and giving the learners understanding of the topic discussed in
the application. The developed application adopted ADDIE methodology into the
MOSAD Life Cycle, as the Instructional Design Method. The MOSAD application
has been developed using Java JCreator LE, Sun Java Wireless Toolkit version 2.5.2
and Microsoft Paint. The application contains several sections which include
Objectives, Introduction, Course Contents, Summary, Quiz, References and Help. The
MOSAD application is developed as a tool for second year Business and Information
System (BIS) students of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) to do the revision
as a preparation for any assessments such as tests and examinations. Quasi
Experimental Design was conducted to 116 second year UTP BIS SAD course
students. Various instruments such as heuristic evaluation, post test, questionnaires
and observation have been designed to measure the effectiveness and usability of the
developed application. The effectiveness and usability of the application were
evaluated based on qualitative and quantitative analysis using SPSS
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software. Overall, the results show that MOSAD application is effective as a revision
tool for SAD students and it fulfilled the usability needs.