Abstract
The use of the educational mobile app in teaching and learning is getting popular nowadays due to improvement in technology, better accessibility, users’ acceptance and affordances of mobile devices. This paper discusses the conceptual design of Economics mobile app for learning economics terminologies. The app is designed for ubiquitous self-learning based on cognitive theories, which are information processing theory and cognitive theory in multimedia learning. The users are secondary school students in Malaysia. A qualitative study is adopted for data collection where interviews will be conducted with Economics teachers to identify the list of economic terminologies to be included in the app and also to explore the effective methods of delivering the meaning of those terminologies. The app is aimed to aid students to build understanding and knowledge of the economics terminologies, process the information for long term retention and increase their interest in Economics subject to improve economic literacy. The details of the app are explained in this paper.
Highlights
Today, with the advancement of mobile technology, better access to the internet, together with the affordability of having mobile devices and increased interest in online surfing among students
Economics educational app which is designed for school students in Malaysia is still not much available. To fill in this gap, this paper proposes the conceptual design of Economics mobile app for secondary school students in Malaysia
This paper presents a conceptual design of Economics mobile app for learning economics terminologies
Summary
With the advancement of mobile technology, better access to the internet, together with the affordability of having mobile devices and increased interest in online surfing among students. A mobile application or most commonly referred to as an app is a type of application software designed to run on a mobile device, such as a smartphone or tablet computer These devices have a large amount of computing power, portable, internet accessible and enable efficient communication make them great potential learning tools for both classroom learning and self-learning (Sung et al, 2016). According to Salemi (2005), at the foundation course, students should attain a deeper understanding and working knowledge of a shortlist of economics concepts. These economics concepts are terminologies that have specific meanings
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