VSPad: Harnessing Learning Styles among Mobile Learners
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E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, 2004 in Washington, DC, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-54-9
Abstract
Educational applications that run on mobile devices are fast emerging. Yet one crucial area that has received little attention to date involves the learning styles of users and whether these affect their rate of learning. The literature suggests that such effects are possible. This paper describes Visio-Spatio Pad (VSPad), a mobile application that helps users remember lists of keywords using their visual, spatial and auditory strengths. VSPad uses the number keypad structure of mobile phones for learners to remember the starting letters of keywords. Learners highlight letters that the keywords start with and whenever a list needs to be recalled, they simply retrace the way their fingers moved. Letters are associated with unique tones, helping auditory learners as well. A training tool is provided to prompt learners with cues if a tracing pattern is forgotten. The VSPad is network-enabled, allowing keyword lists to be shared among learners. Implications of our work are also discussed.
Citation
Goh, D., Theng, Y.L., Lee, C.K. & Choy, M. (2004). VSPad: Harnessing Learning Styles among Mobile Learners. In J. Nall & R. Robson (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2004--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 2646-2651). Washington, DC, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 15, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/11282.
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