Research on Applying Digital Multimedia on Mobile Learning Vehicles

• Main Authors: Chen, Chien-Yu, 陳建宇
• Other Authors: Chen, Chien-Wen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24281485952036443980

碩士 === 嶺東科技大學 === 視覺傳達設計研究所 === 99 === 　We are in a time when multimedia is very developed, digital multimedia technologies are improving everyday and new technologies are developed all the time, video resolutions are also rapidly marching towards high definition. In addition, due to video editing equipment operation modes are more human, the effects brought on by the prevalence of personal computers, and the popularity of multimedia sharing functions for community websites have created diverse multimedia productions. These productions are shared and broadcasted to every corner of the world by using internet multimedia platforms. 　Furthermore, as the value-added services for mobile phones become diversified and the 3G communication network widely extended, the establishment rate of campus wireless internet has vastly increased, along with the flourishing development upsurge of mobile vehicles ─ “Smart phones” and convenient diverse cell phone software features are widely popular among consumers and have become the fashion trend for the future communication market. If we can combine the internet’s borderless feature with the smart phone’s mobile internet connection and real-time transmitting features, along with mobile learning and related applications, we can breakthrough the traditional dogmatic book-teaching method and change it to multimedia sharing, giving the knowledge teaching content audio and visual entertainment effects. Thus will increase interest in learning and leave deeper impressions for the learners. 　Therefore, this research referred to mobile learning related research combined with multimedia data of Taiwan’s rare bird types for value-added development. It also referred to the syllabus of normal high school’s basic biology classes set up by the Ministry of Education as a basis. This research developed and built a mobile communication teaching software platform by mainly using mobile vehicles to broadcast digital multimedia, and by making questionnaires for smart phone usage attitude and needs for applying it on outdoor bird-watching activities. It’s the main purpose of research to understand the needs attitude for smart phone function applications of current smart phone users and use questionnaires to find out their feasibility acknowledgement for combining bird ecology outdoor teaching applications. The problems were compiled and analyzed, and then the “Exploring the Digital Formosa” mobile learning platform was developed and built. Junior high school and senior high school biology teachers, information development professionals and smart phone users were interviewed with a platform satisfaction research questionnaire; at the same time, an actual platform testing and satisfaction semi-open questionnaire researches for junior high school and senior high school biology related teachers were conducted. 　The result of this research showed that current smart phone functions are suitable for digital multimedia combined with mobile learning; however, for the software it requires connection to mobile communication services or wireless internet to download and install updates and related mobile value-added software to achieve maximum effects for a complete digital multimedia combined with mobile learning. The research results for user’s attitude toward smart phone usage, the need for applying it towards bird-watching activities, and the result of the teacher’s satisfaction level of actually testing out the mobile learning platform all show positive appraisals. Yet, since smart phones have too many functions and the screens are too small which made it difficult to operate and thus obstruct the user’s interest in learning on cell phones. Based on the research results mentioned above, we suggest that cell phones should be combined with the emerging technologies of e-books, and extended development on this research’s learning platform value-added content into the application of digital content publishing of e-books. This will surely increase the platform’s content value. Keywords: Digital Multimedia, Mobile Devices, Smart Phone, M-Learning