E-Learning: Students Input for Using Mobile Devices in Science Instructional Settings

Ozkan Yilmaz

doi:10.5539/jel.v5n3p182

Abstract

<p class="jel-maintext">A variety of e-learning theories, models, and strategy have been developed to support educational settings. There are many factors for designing good instructional settings. This study set out to determine functionality of mobile devices, students who already have, and the student needs and views in relation to e-learning settings. The study participants are undergraduate students who are enrolled department of science education in faculty of education and electrical and electronics engineering department in faculty of engineering. Prepared questionnaire form is used to collect data. This form consists of three parts. First part of questionnaire related to mobile devices, second part related to user preferences and third part contains open ended question to get students ideas about usage of self-phones in science educational settings. Countable data are analyzed with descriptive techniques. And content analysis technique is used for written data. Findings show that mobile phones should be selected as required equipment for usage of mobile devices in e-learning setting. Other important findings that students suggest that mobile phone can be used face to face educational setting in classroom and outside of classroom without and face to face interaction to teacher or students.</p>

Highlights

In 1800’s years had been beginning a revolution in communications by inventing the telephone
Last part of questionnaire contains written data based on open ended question. These data are analyzed with content analysis in Nvivo PC software, and illustrated with diagrams. This part shows that data collected by questionnaire about the specifications of hardware need to be used in e-learning and students’ views about usage of mobile phones as a learning tool in educational purpose
These findings show that students have high-level featured mobile phones

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Introduction

In 1800’s years had been beginning a revolution in communications by inventing the telephone. In 1940’s years, after first phone calls, people had met new concept “mobile phone”. There was no physical cable for connecting one phone to others. There were limited city which were have own mobile phone technology infrastructure, and providing service with low capacity (AT & T, 2016). Good sound transmission was much more important topic in those years. These are called first generation mobile phones (1G). After first generation mobile phones, developed second generations (2G) which has new feature; added fax, data, and messaging services. We have fourth generation (4G) mobile phones which have high-speed connectivity and provide better-than-TV quality images and video-links (Ashiho, 2003). Over 1 billion users have mobile broadband subscriptions in the 34-country OECD (OECD, 2016)

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