EVALUATION OF MOBILE AUTHORING AND TUTORING IN MEDICAL ISSUESEfthymios Alepis and Maria Virvou
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Mobile computing facilities may provide many assets to the educational process. Mobile technology provides software access from anywhere and at any time, as well as computer equipment independence. The need for time and place independence is even greater for medical instructors and medical students. Medical instructors are usually doctors that have to treat patients on top of their tutoring duties. Mobile features are complementary to web-based features for desktop computers in a high extend in asynchronous e-learning environments. Time and place independence is also a considerable potential for medical students with overloaded educational duties. In this paper we examine the degree of usefulness of mobile facilities for medical instructors who wish to author and manage their courses using a mobile authoring tool. Furthermore, we investigate how acceptable and useful the mobile features of an e-learning system have been to medical students that have used the system, in comparison with the use of the system through a desktop computer. In addition we investigate usability issues. |
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