Abstract
Students require a great deal of information from colleges such as admission notices, timetables, events details, assessments etc. Currently, this information is provided to students through college website. The information present on website is generic, pertaining to large group of students and other stakeholders. Currently in Ethiopia, Higher Educational Institution (HEI) information is distributed to students in two ways, one using traditional paper means and other is using its University website. However, the major challenge in obtaining information from website is that it provides collective information pertaining to large groups of students instead of focusing to individual student needs. In view of this problems and issues concerning the accessibility on on-time information of student in different higher educational institution of the country. In this study, the researcher propose a mobile educational framework student engagement information system coin as mSEIS, integrating the existing web-enabled system of the University and include other features pertaining to student services. The proposed framework and its implementation will empower student by providing them with relevant personalized information anywhere anytime. The study proposed extensible 3-tier architecture from its formulated mobile framework which consists of the following functionality: Grades Inquiry, Class time table, m-Learning, m-Library, Notice Board and Helpline. Among the 40 Ethiopian, HEI 6 institution was selected using purposive sampling technique because the goal of the study was to acquire the best-positioned and the most able thinkers on the problem. Using the Software Quality ISO 9126 standard based modified Likert survey questionnaire, the respondents strongly agreed that the acceptability factor of the system’s functionality, reliability, efficiency, usability, maintainability and portability are significant. The proposed system passed all criteria except the portability, in which it is recommended that it should be available in iOS and Windows Phone mobile operation system as future work.
Highlights
Nowadays, mobile technologies are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and networked
Mobile devices equipped with internet connections have created the need for a new form of electronic learning, called mobile learning
Announcements and alerts to students and tracking the effectiveness of those communications is imperative to student success but to student retention [11]. In view of this problems and issues concerning the accessibility on on-time information of student in different higher educational institution of the country, the researchers propose a mobile educational framework student engagement information system coin as mSEIS, integrating the existing web-enabled system of the University and include other features pertaining to student services
Summary
Mobile technologies are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and networked. Such technologies can be used creatively in different areas. Internet-enabled mobile devices can help students to access learning resources and online courses, anywhere and at any time [1]. Today it is imperative to use the traditional forms of communication, and newer forms such as mobile technology for quicker and easier communication among the students. In a real world scenario such as college campus, information is provided in the form of notices, hand written manuals, oral communication is spread among the students [2]. To provide all this information at ease, we are developing this application wherein students can access this information using their Android enabled mobiles. Students need not queue up near the notice board or log on to college website for any of the abovementioned details
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