Design, Development and Implementation of Mobile Applications to Support the Educational Process in the Greek Secondary Education System

Christos Douligeris,Dimitra Tsolakou,Eleni Seralidou,Nikos Vallianatos

doi:10.24018/ejers.2020.0.cie.2302

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The purpose of this paper is the design, development and presentation of two applications that are created in order to be used for supporting the students’ learning in the Greek secondary education environment. More specifically, we present the structure and the functions of two applications under the names “Aepp_App” and “CS_App”. The applications are intended to be used by teachers and students during a lesson as well as outside the classroom settings, with the use of android mobile devices. We present the tools that have been used to develop the mobile applications and the applications’ use in the educational process. Additionally, we present the feedback received by teachers, to whom the applications were presented, who seem to like the idea of using game applications for mobile devices in order to enhance their students’ interest.

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Nowadays, mobile devices are very popular in primary and secondary schools
We present the structure and the functions of CS_App and Aepp_App, two applications for mobile devices which we developed for secondary education
We discuss the way that these applications can be used in order to support the educational process and we present information about the performed presentation of the mobile applications to teachers and the received feedback

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Mobile devices are very popular in primary and secondary schools They offer a new way of learning in K-12 education by providing a variety of enhanced features, like the integration of multimedia, and help in solving problems encountered in schools such as overbooked and unavailable computer labs [1] [2]. The students today have different preferences when it comes to learning than they had only a few years ago. They learn at a higher speed, are used to processing visual and dynamic information and prefer learning through gamebased activities [3] [4] [5]. Today’s young people have a positive attitude towards using mobile apps in their daily lives, including in their learning activities [9]

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