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http://dx.doi.org/10.7230/KOSCAS.2017.50.453

Analysis of usability factors for Educational Mobile application  

Choi, Eun-Young (서울디지털대학교 미디어영상학과)
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Cartoon and Animation Studies / v., no., 2018 , pp. 453-478 More about this Journal
Abstract
Mobile learning, which provides educational services with a mobile platform, has been greatly expanding with the increasing spread of digital devices. The transition from PC-based online education to mobile-based education enables users to access online education anytime and anywhere. Despite this expansion of mobile learning, there is a lack of user-oriented content design. Therefore, this study intends to derive a measure to evaluate usefulness of the content design. We conducted a literature survey to reflect characteristics of existing measures, which evaluate usefulness and content of mobile learning. As educational mobile applications have both educational service and mobile device features, they can be representative of pedagogical usability criterion and can be divided into system and content areas to further develop effectiveness of learning. We conducted questionnaires on the use of these applications on 15 experts using the del phi technique. The analysis suggests the ease of use, learning efficiency, aesthetics, and ease of learning to be criteria of pedagogical usability. This study expects to serve as a basis to improve the usability of mobile learning users.
Keywords
Usability; pedological usability; mobile application;
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