IDENTIFYING CURRICULUM CONTENT FOR IMPLEMENTING MOBILE LEARNING IN SECONDARY SCHOOL: A DELPHI TECHNIQUE
Institut Pendidikan Guru Kampus Darulaman (MALAYSIA)
About this paper:
Appears in:
EDULEARN11 Proceedings
Publication year: 2011
Pages: 1823-1833
ISBN: 978-84-615-0441-1
ISSN: 2340-1117
Conference name: 3rd International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies
Dates: 4-6 July, 2011
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Abstract:
The learning society has currently transformed from ‘wired society’ to become ‘mobile society’ which is facilitated by wireless network. to suit to this new paradigm, mobile learning was given birth and rapidly building its prospect to be included in the future curriculum, research and studies on mobile learning spruced up in numerous aspects but there is still scarcity in studies on curriculum design of mobile learning. this study is a part of an ongoing bigger study probing into the mobile learning curriculum for secondary schools. The paper reports the second phase study aimed at determining the contents of mobile learning curriculum and that the study used the three-cycle Delphi technique. Data were collected from 16 mobile learning experts locally and abroad using questionnaires in three cycles to obtain expert concensus on the mobile learning curriculum contents. The study found that the subjects that met the expert concensus were Information Technology, Science, Mathematics, Geography, Malay Language and Islamic Education while the components consisted of skills component, training component, field task component, knowledge component and virtues component. The study results were used as one of the elements in developing the mobile learning curriculum design. Keywords:
m-learning, e-learning, future curriculum, curriculum design, mobile society, mobile devices.