Tag Archives: design for mobile learning

The Gamification of Mobile Learning

What Is Gamification?  Gamification is the process of applying game mechanics and game design techniques in non-gaming contexts to engage and motivate users to achieve certain goals. Gamification leverages interactive game design and taps into people’s basic desires for achievement to create the optimal context for behaviour change and successful outcomes. In gamification, the learning […]

Engage Learners with Scenario-based Mobile Learning

Although still in its infancy, anytime anywhere mobile learning is shifting traditional teaching and learning process and leading to new pedagogy. But mobile learning is more than just using a mobile device to access content and communicate with others – it is the processes of coming to know through exploration and conversation across multiple contexts […]

Designing mobile learning for knowledge retention

Anytime anywhere mobile learning is shifting modern education into more inclusive and higher quality personalized learning experience. But even the most informative and beautifully designed mLearning courses can fall short if they lack the component of knowledge retention. The ultimate goal of any mLearning deliverable is to create memorable and powerful content, which is easy […]

Are Apps Going to Replace Textbooks?

Printed textbooks have long been used as the centre of education, but as the aeon of paper books has transpired, traditional textbooks face great challenges to serve as the main mode of deliverance of education. It is a common perception now that digital technology holds great potential to improve institutional learning. In just a few […]

Create Effective Mobile Learning Through Three Cognitive Levels

Mobile learning or m-learning is the new trend for education, and pioneers of alternative education are trumpeting the use of this modern technology to enhance learning and teaching. But with most mobile learning adaptors still focus on simply changing the existing content to fit into new mobile platforms, little efforts have been tried to design […]