mLearning, or mobile learning, student-generated activities enable students to adopt an active approach in learning their subjects. In developed countries, such as the USA, UK and Australia, this method is widely practiced compared to developing countries, such as Malaysia. The largely qualitative study reported in this paper focuses on extending this practice to the Malaysian context. An inter...

In Japan, the mobile phone e-learning is still at the early stage. A reason for this might be the lack of good quality electronic learning materials. In this paper, I develop the mobile phone e-learning using manga based learning system. Word of mouth is a determining factor for success in this system. This case study was to examine motivational factors affecting the mobile phone e-learning sys...

Advanced mobile phones, such as Smartphones and Pocket PC phones, can potentially provide cost-effective ubiquitous access. Towards evaluating their potential and discovering usability problems, we distributed state-of-the-art phones to 10 mobile users and employed a triangulation of research methods to study their usage for two month research methods included qualitative inquiries in the form ...

Recent studies have shown what indispensable role mobile phones play as means of mobilization in contentious politics around the world. Nevertheless, there has been no clear elaboration of how mobile phone uses translate into mobilization in contentious politics. To fill this gap, the current study employs Passy’s (2003) framework of the threefold function of social ties as channels of mobiliza...

Studies on gender and telephony tend to be quantitative and depict the purposes for which women and men use mobile telephones and landlines. Qualitative studies on the topic predominantly rely on face-to-face interviews to examine how telephone use genders space. We suggest these traditional methods of data collection leave unexamined the emotional and social relationships that emerge and are e...

NOTES 3 To minimize any context bias associated with survey fatigue or priming from prior questions, the two name generator questions were located close to the start of the survey. They were placed after a small number of questions about basic internet use that were used to establish trust with the survey participant. 4 Previous research has identified a high degree of overlap between those wit...

conclusions mobiles contamination with different pathogens is extremely common among our health care staffs compared with other societies, and resistance of these isolates to various antibiotics is also detectable. thus, quick assessment of this issue to prevent the spread of these infectious agents is critical for the authorities in our health care systems. results in total, 99.2% of mobile ph...

most popular sources for electromagnetic waves. however, there are many concerns regarding their biological effects on the body, especially the central nervous system. therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of cell phone radiation on histology of the cerebellar granular cells in the neonatal rat. materials and methods: we selected some wistar rats. then, we randomly divide...

BACKGROUND Emotional awareness and self-regulation are important skills for improving mental health and reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. Cognitive behavioral therapy can teach these skills but is not widely available. OBJECTIVE This exploratory study examined the potential of mobile phone technologies to broaden access to cognitive behavioral therapy techniques and to provide in-t...