Sakai: A Mobile Learning Platform

Corrienna Abdul Talib,Adi Maimun Abdul Malik,Kang Hooi Siang,Marlina Ali,Igor Novopashenny,Hassan Aliyu

doi:10.3991/ijim.v13i11.10800

Abstract

These days, humans have been witnessing related technological and social development, by means of which mobile technologies and Internet yield global access to information with mobility of knowledge. Mobile learning platforms are designed based on electronic learning (e-learning) and mobility. It is regarded as a useful way to enhance the learning process. Sakai as a mobile learning platform, design intentions are to be adaptable to any educational purposes, within or outside the institution, dependent on the provision of effectiveness in classroom instruction based on the learning style of the students, extensible in the cultivation of thinking skills in the learner, and efficient in communicating and exchanging data among its enrolled classroom members and other online platforms. This study employed a systematic review of related literature to investigate the predominant research methodology adopted by various scholars to assess necessary factors concerning mobile learning platform. Fifteen articles are selected based on established criteria. The findings indicated that most of the researchers used quantitative research methodology in investigating the effectiveness and concern variable of mobile learning. Also find out is that most of the outcome of the studies include, achievement, perception, pedagogy, motivation and mobile learning platform as a form of educational technology.

Highlights

Today, mobile learning technologies exert more effects on classroom instruction, and link formal with informal learning, work and leisure [1]
Find out the predominant research methodology used by the researcher to evaluate the effectiveness of mobile learning platforms
The review conducted intended to address the objectives of the study which include to (i) find out the predominant research methodology used by the researcher to evaluate the effectiveness of mobile learning platforms and (ii) compare results of the related study with the feature Sakai as a new-aged mobile learning platform

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Mobile learning technologies exert more effects on classroom instruction, and link formal with informal learning, work and leisure [1]. The processes of planning, designing and implementing mobile learning technologies into the classroom activities thereby enhancing appropriate support for the learners are both challenging and complex [1]. Many educational institutions across the world banned utilization of mobile phones in the classroom which implies that learners cannot benefit from the relevance smartphones in teaching and learning [3]. This regulation was mainly form based on reasons that learners misuses their moblile devices during classroom instruction. Many scholars called mobile phones the “Swiss army knife” of technology for the reason that they have a emergent number of tools (for example, audio/video players & recorders, digital cameras, Internet access, calculators, apps, e-mail and texting) which are of greater advantage to instruction in the classroom

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