A Two-tier Approach to Enhancing Project-based Collaborative Learning in a Mobile Learning Environment

• Main Authors: Yu-Hsien Wang, 王淯鮮
• Other Authors: Yu-Feng Lan
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9p4jx3

碩士 === 國立虎尾科技大學 === 資訊管理研究所 === 99 === The advancement of wireless and communication technologies has enabled students to learn in an environment that combines learning resources from both the real world and the virtual digital world. Besides, through the technical support of mobile devices, learners can carry out ubiquitous learning and improve learning performance. Previous studies have pointed out that the use of learning strategies with mobile devices in education has many advantages, but there are still some missing points. One of the difficulties is that past studies did not indicate a formal learning strategy for examining a mobile learning. Thus, the purpose of this study was to develop a two-tier learning strategies including exploratory learning and collaborative learning in a university project-based learning to effectively improve project results. The study also deeply analyzed student''s discussion and interaction frequency in the mobile learning environment. The researcher invited fifty college students participating in a Radio-frequency identification (RFID) course for one semester (18 weeks). The study also uses the evaluation mechanism to examine student''s project results and the use of the Software Development Life Cycle Model to analysis student’s project process. The result showed that no significant difference between the experimental group and control group; however, the project scores of experimental group were higher than that of control group. In addition, the students in the experimental group have better frequency of interaction and participation than that in the control group. Therefore, based on the results of this study, the following conclusions are made: (1) Combining a two-tier learning strategy and mobile learning environment are indeed effective to enhance learning performance. (2) Use of the mobile device to carry out data collection and post information resulting in more interaction between students.