Learning Diaries—A Valuable Companion of Mobile Learning for Higher Education in Software Engineering

Abstract

Over the past two decades, mobile learning has become a popular part of educational technology in higher education. Mobile learning has the potential to individualize, personalize, and optimize learning processes. It enables students to learn, collaborate, and share ideas among each other anywhere and anytime with the aid of mobile devices. This requires a high degree of students’ autonomy and self-organization and may lead to a significant fragmentation of the learning process. Learning diaries can serve as a didactic tool to support, structure, and consolidate students’ learning progress in distance learning phases.