MORE - Mobile Referencing System for Printed Media

Jörg Röpke, Georg Schneider

2012

Abstract

Smart phones have become the indispensible communication and entertainment device for students and pupils. In this paper we are going to present an approach based upon smart phones in order to offer a possibility to use these phones as learning devices in combination with learning material in a different media as in our case a book. The paper presents the realization of an extensible mobile learning management system with a small footprint, which can be used to easily add exercises to the belonging learning material. Once the learning material has been created, it can be published as a smart phone app. Learners install the app and it will display the related exercises once the user scans their associated QR tags in the book. The system has been exploited from a German publisher and is currently being used for the standard course book about Old and Middle High German at German universities. We will describe the results of our initial user study and the first feedback from the learners using the system.

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Röpke J. and Schneider G. (2012). MORE - Mobile Referencing System for Printed Media . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8565-07-5, pages 387-394. DOI: 10.5220/0003921003870394


in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu12,
author={Jörg Röpke and Georg Schneider},
title={MORE - Mobile Referencing System for Printed Media},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2012},
pages={387-394},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003921003870394},
isbn={978-989-8565-07-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - MORE - Mobile Referencing System for Printed Media
SN - 978-989-8565-07-5
AU - Röpke J.
AU - Schneider G.
PY - 2012
SP - 387
EP - 394
DO - 10.5220/0003921003870394