TY - GEN
T1 - Human factors considerations in mobile learning management systems
AU - Sarrab, Mohamed
AU - Al-Khanjari, Zuhoor
AU - Alnaeli, Saleh
AU - Bourdoucen, Hadj
N1 - Funding Information:
This article is based upon research work funded by The Research Council (TRC) of the Sultanate of Oman, under Grant No: ORG/SQU/ICT/13/006, (www.trc.gov.om).
Funding Information:
Acknowledgment. This article is based upon research work funded by The Research Council (TRC) of the Sultanate of Oman, under Grant No: ORG/SQU/ICT/13/006, (www.trc.gov.om).
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG, a part of Springer Nature 2018.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The rapid development in Internet and mobile technologies had an influence on education and learning processes that led to emergence of mobile learning as potential part of learning management system. Many individual learners and instructors, in some cases, entire education providers are gravitating towards the adoption of mobile learning through comprehensive learning management systems (LMS) for managing courses contents and enhancing learners’ education process. This research involves the development and validation of a survey that used to study 23 distinct Omani higher education providers empirically. A total sample of 806 university and higher college students and instructors participated in this study. A correlated six-factor Flexibility, Suitability, Enjoyment, Impact, Social and Economic were found to be as human influencing factors. Four different learning management systems Moodle, Blackboard, Schoology and Edmodo have been compared and evaluated in respect of the selected human factors. The effort is part of an Omani-funded research project investigating the development, adoption and dissemination of M-learning in Oman.
AB - The rapid development in Internet and mobile technologies had an influence on education and learning processes that led to emergence of mobile learning as potential part of learning management system. Many individual learners and instructors, in some cases, entire education providers are gravitating towards the adoption of mobile learning through comprehensive learning management systems (LMS) for managing courses contents and enhancing learners’ education process. This research involves the development and validation of a survey that used to study 23 distinct Omani higher education providers empirically. A total sample of 806 university and higher college students and instructors participated in this study. A correlated six-factor Flexibility, Suitability, Enjoyment, Impact, Social and Economic were found to be as human influencing factors. Four different learning management systems Moodle, Blackboard, Schoology and Edmodo have been compared and evaluated in respect of the selected human factors. The effort is part of an Omani-funded research project investigating the development, adoption and dissemination of M-learning in Oman.
KW - Economic
KW - Enjoyment
KW - Flexibility
KW - Human factors
KW - Impact
KW - Mobile learning
KW - Social
KW - Suitability
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-75175-7_38
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-75175-7_38
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85042562821
SN - 9783319751740
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 372
EP - 383
BT - Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning - Proceedings of the 11th IMCL Conference
A2 - Tsiatsos, Thrasyvoulos
A2 - Auer, Michael E.
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 11th International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning, IMCL2017
Y2 - 30 November 2017 through 1 December 2017
ER -