Abstract
With the development of mobile Internet and the popularity of smart devices, mobile teaching is considered to be a trend of future teaching. As one of teaching softwares based on mobile terminal, MosoTeach enjoys great popularity in China. With the information collected through literature research as well as authors’ experiences of applying MosoTeach in classroom teaching, the present paper introduces a mobile teaching mode based on MosoTeach, and addresses functions of MosoTeach, the application of mobile teaching mode based on MosoTeach, and its benefits and challenges. Three benefits are pointed out, which are diversification, personalization and liberalization of learning; timely, all-sided and formative assessment system; and the convenience of collecting data and doing statistic analysis. Meanwhile, there are also some arguments about this mode such as the efficiency of participation, balancing between activities in and out of the classroom, balancing between face-to-face interaction and interaction through MosoTeach as well as the popularization in poverty-stricken areas, and some suggestions are put forward to solve these problems. Teachers should plan and organize the teaching materials well, and differentiate activities according to different phases in which those activities are carried out and keep balance between face-to-face interaction and interaction through MosoTeach.
Highlights
The era of mobile Internet has come
With the information collected through literature research as well as authors’ experiences of applying MosoTeach in classroom teaching, the present paper introduces a mobile teaching mode based on MosoTeach, and addresses functions of MosoTeach, the application of mobile teaching mode based on MosoTeach, and its benefits and challenges
Teachers should plan and organize the teaching materials well, and differentiate activities according to different phases in which those activities are carried out and keep balance between face-to-face interaction and interaction through MosoTeach
Summary
The era of mobile Internet has come. According to the data provided by Zenithmedia (2017), the primary means of accessing the Internet for most users are mobile devices (including both smart phones and tablets). Mobile devices accounted for 70% of time spent using the Internet in 2017. Mobile Internet use has doubled since 2011, when it accounted for 36% of all of the Internet use. Mobile terminals marked by smart phones and tablet computers are gradually replacing traditional PC and becoming the main learning devices for college students. China has 802 million mobile Internet users, with 98.3 percent of them accessing the Internet via mobile phones. Students account for 24.8% of mobile Internet users (China Internet Network Information Center [CNNIC], 2018). The survey of America shows that 75% of American teenagers own cell phones with 83% of 17-year-olds owning cell phones (Lenhart, Ling, Cambell & Purcell, 2010)
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