Development of a Mobile Learning System for Local Culture Courses based on a Collaborative Problem-Posing Strategy

Abstract

With the help of mobile and wireless communication technologies, students can be situated in a real-world scenario associated wit h the learning content. Such an approach has been recognized by researchers as being a promi sing way of assisting students in linking their prior knowledge learned from the text books to their real-world experiences. On the other hand, researchers have also indicated that the effectiveness of such a learning approach might not be as good as expected if no pro per learning strategy or tool is provided to guide or support the students during th e learning process. In this study, a problem-posing strategy is proposed for supporting collaborative mobile learning activities. Accordingly, a mobile learning environm ent has been developed, and an experiment on a local culture course has been condu cted in southern Taiwan to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The exp erimental results show that the new approach is able to improve the students’ learning achievement.