Designing mobile learning: Empirical journey to reality in Malaysian secondary school context

Rashidah Rahamat

doi:10.30659/e.4.1.13-24

Abstract

Designing a conducive and meaningful learning environment in the teaching and learning is thought-provoking tasks. The use of teaching materials will be one of the resources and normally teachers or the practitioners will need to put a lot of considerations will assist teachers in creating the desired learning outcomes. This paper aims to share the initial steps engaged in the process of creating a mobile learning concept which is applicable for Malaysian Secondary School Education. Therefore, the mixture of qualitative and quantitative measure was deployed in order to achieve the primary objective of creating a workable mobile learning concept. The findings from analysing 40 documents had unlocked a few gaps to be filled in: they enabled the focus to be on the small �l� component for the English Language secondary school syllabus as well as on the feasible methodology to be applied for the real mobile language learning context. Whereas the input from the need analysis provided more insights on how the content for the dry literature components could be arranged in the learning context. Hence, by combining the input from the documents analysis and need analysis data, they had proven to be empirically and beneficially useful steps to be taken before embarking on the actual conception of any teaching and learning design to be proposed or implemented. These initial steps had proven to be beneficial for the next stage of designing the mobile learning environment in Malaysian secondary school context.

Highlights

Education is no longer bound to be only within the four walls of the classroom and those involved in the education sector should consider making the learning process be more mobile and flexible using mobile learning concept available
The results of the analysis will be presented based on the examination carried out on the 40 mobile learning articles and the needs analysis survey
The critical analysis of mobile learning researches The findings of the 40 documents revealed attention-grabbing results especially in searching for the gaps for the intended research

Summary

Introduction

Education is no longer bound to be only within the four walls of the classroom and those involved in the education sector should consider making the learning process be more mobile and flexible using mobile learning concept available. Despite of the efforts to ensure that technologies are very well utilized and realized in the classroom, there are some educators who are still sceptical of making full use of the available technologies to assist the learning process. Buzzing sound for e-learning which has created a long dejected “eeeeee!” among teachers or educators when it was first introduced and this “e” vowel would gradually change to the long questionable “mmmmmm!?” when the terminology for mobile learning or m-learning came into picture. Flexibility to learn anywhere anytime should be taken into consideration in preparing students on what to learn

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