I am busy with research with regard to mobile apps in higher education. One of the questions I need to answer is to investigate the use of one or many applications. I have found good information on Gartner, but I need some feedback from practice.
Mrs/Miss Van Staden,
This tool is rather not applicable to educational purposes in the field of natural sciences. It is applicable to services to students, having mainly administrative character.
Yes. One researcher at my institution developed a mobile app for Math quizzes to help students improve their Math performance. See the journal article below for more details.
Best regards,
Debra
http://libraries.sta.uwi.edu/journals/ojs/index.php/cts/article/viewFile/27/25
Dear Christa,
Using mobile apps for educational purposes is very helpful and effective for both students as well as teachers. Being an researcher I am using many apps for this purpose, to name a few, evernote, mendley, dropbox, coursera, etc.
Research have shown that there are over 20 million students who are using Google apps for education. Opting Google apps for education can save up to $1.5 Million per year in classrooms. Also 72 of the top 100 universities in the United States use Google apps. 73% teachers access digital content from their handheld mobile device and mobile networks are accessible to more than 90% of the worlds population.
With all these stats, you can verify its usefulness. There are many other useful apps for teacher like TeacherKit to record attendance, grades etc.
You can find list of some useful apps in the following link. But there are many others.
http://www.edudemic.com/most-used-mobile-apps-education/
Regards
Shweta
Hi Christa,
you might download e-CRTD from Google Play if you have Android-based device (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.noitech.ecrtd) or from Apple Store if your systems run on iOS (https://itunes.apple.com/it/app/e-crtd/id1048576245?mt=8).
Our app has been used for education (expert cardiologists challenging resident students in proper management of patients affected by heart failure and requiring device implantation). It worked great (100% classification match between groups).
Best,
Antonio
Thank you for your comments. I am busy developing guidelines for mobile app development and it seems to be an interesting topic!
Dear Christa
I agree with all above , we may need scientific applications in mobile.
regards
Application of mobile apps for learning is becoming increasingly popular in some of our schools; many students/teachers find them convenient to use.
Teachers and students are encouraged to design mobile appsand we see an increasing use of these in the core sciences and engineering departments however I am not aware of any being used in the basic sciences.departments in my University.
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