background and purpose: active learning, combined with computer-assisted instruction, can enhance medical students’ performance and learning. this article is an attempt to introduce a new web-based approach to information technology instruction for medical students. methods: eight topics were selected to be instructed in web-based workshops. phpbb forum was used for web-based collaborative lear...

In this paper, Chinese curricula in the contexts of China and Singapore on primary level are compared and contrasted by both quantitative (Word Segmenter and Text Analyzer) and qualitative methods (in-depth thematic analysis). The research shows challenges for educational administrators, teachers and other professional staff in Chinese education on the aspects of applying information and commun...

This paper reports on extensions to a decision-theoretic location-aware shopping guide and on the results of user studies that have accompanied its development. On the basis of the results of an earlier user study in a mock-up of a shopping mall, we implemented an improved version of the shopping guide. A new user study with the improved system in a real shopping mall confirms in a much more re...

background mobile learning affects learners through motivation, cooperation, information sharing, and availability. it provides opportunities for learners, learning providers and universities. this study aimed to examine the role of mobile learning on the academic achievement and self-regulation of paramedical sciences in birjand university of medical sciences. methods this survey is a quasi-ex...

background: today, mobile phone technology has provided an opportunity for teachers and students to improve their continuous teaching/ learning process. the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of learning via mobile phone in the course of clinical pharmacology of medical students at pediatric ward. methods: in this semi-experimental study, 40 medical students at their last ...

considering the pace of scientific, technological and cultural developments, one will have no other choice but to learn over a lifetime. mobile learning as a new stage of e-learning development with the potential of using mobile devices, is supposed to be an effective means for lifelong learning. therefore, the purpose of this survey was to analyze the problems of agricultural education system ...

In this paper, we introduce a novel smartphone framework called VisitSense that automatically detects and predicts a smartphone user's place visits from ambient radio to enable behavioral targeting for mobile ads in large shopping malls. VisitSense enables mobile app developers to adopt visit-pattern-aware mobile advertising for shopping mall visitors in their apps. It also benefits mobile user...

Android is Google's latest open source software platform for mobile devices which has already attained enormous popularity. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of mobile application for shopping mall using Android platform. A prototype was developed for the shoppers of Bashundhara Shopping Mall of Bangladesh. This prototype will serve as a framework for any such application...