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Mobile and Personalized Learning for Sustainable Development and Education

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 6896

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Department of E-Learning Design and Management, National Chiayi University, Chiayi County 621, Taiwan
Interests: educational technology; mobile learning; e-learning; maker education; STEAM; AR/VR; meaningful learning
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Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, m-learning has been widely applied to various fields and has become a popular issue in educational research. M-learning can be simply defined as the application of hand-held devices, such as smartphones, laptops, palmtop computers, and electronic readers (e-readers), in order to enable learners to proceed with electronic learning (e-learning) anywhere and anytime, rather than limiting them to the confines of a classroom. On the other hand, those hand-held devices are basically for personal use, which can combine with some sensor technologies, such as screen touching track and GPS, to record the learning context and learning behavior along with mobility. Today, cloud computing is a prevailing technology which can help the teacher to realize the learning status in a timely manner to enhance personalized learning. Thus, fueled by technology, e-learning is entering the era of mobile and personalized learning, where those web-based paradigms or their extensions remain applicable to this trend. Thus, we believe those concepts from web-based learning can still benefit from the development of mobile and personalized learning for sustainable development and education.

Dr. Po-Sheng Chiu
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Keywords

  • mobile learning
  • personalized learning
  • e-learning
  • web-based learning
  • learning behavior
  • sustainable development
  • education

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Sustainable Education Using New Communication Technology: Assessment with Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)
by Xin-Yu Wang, Guang Li, Jih-Fu Tu, Nguyen Thi To Khuyen and Chun-Yen Chang
Sustainability 2021, 13(17), 9640; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179640 - 27 Aug 2021
Cited by 7 | Viewed by 2227
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This study explores how new communication technology is implemented in education by mainly focusing on the teacher’s role. With a questionnaire and interview surveys, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was carried out to understand the factors that affect implementing new communication technology in [...] Read more.
This study explores how new communication technology is implemented in education by mainly focusing on the teacher’s role. With a questionnaire and interview surveys, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was carried out to understand the factors that affect implementing new communication technology in education. New technologies such as the fifth-generation (5G) technology contribute to the realization of ubiquitous and effective learning. Effective adoption of this technology for education is pedagogically based on teachers’ capability and determination to improve students’ learning activities. The results indicate that teachers and students prefer traditional teaching methods to the new technological methods, with a high weight recorded for the “maintaining the traditional teaching tools” criteria in the solution layer. The importance of the criteria layer shows that there are possibilities of implementing new technologies into education with appropriate support. When considering teachers’ effort, time spent, and resources used to prepare adequate materials, teachers are hesitant about using new technology. However, support helps to implement new communication technology successfully into education, especially teaching. Even with the many advantages of new technology, such as 5G, its problems prohibit teachers from actively using new technology. To provide a basic understanding of how to encourage teachers to successfully implement new technology into education, especially teaching, the results of this study help promote the applications used for sustainable education to narrow the educational divide. Full article
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Crowdsourcing in Nursing Education: A Possibility of Creating a Personalized Online Learning Environment for Student Nurses in the Post-COVID Era
by Ying Geng, Po-Sen Huang and Yeuh-Min Huang
Sustainability 2021, 13(6), 3413; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063413 - 19 Mar 2021
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The widespread COVID-19 pandemic has not only posed a major health threat in Taiwan but also has challenged the nursing pedagogy. Both academia and the education industry are calling for a radical change of nursing pedagogy. Under such a call, the present study [...] Read more.
The widespread COVID-19 pandemic has not only posed a major health threat in Taiwan but also has challenged the nursing pedagogy. Both academia and the education industry are calling for a radical change of nursing pedagogy. Under such a call, the present study investigates an online collaborative knowledge co-construction mechanism—Crowdsourcing Collaborative Learning Strategy (CCLS)—to help student nurses acquire and practice functional knowledge on clinical operations targeted to the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) at anytime and anywhere via the internet service. A t-test on the pre-and-post test between the control and experimental group explained the effectiveness of the CCLS online platform. Two questionnaires were used to explore students’ perception of the effectiveness and the usefulness of the CCLS online platform. The findings suggested the CCLS online platform can help students to revisit their clinical performance via the recorded videos, facilitate student nurses’ self-reflection on their performance, and help student nurses to minimize the academic-practice gap. Participants in this study scored the CCLS online platform as helpful and easy to use during the learning process. Full article
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