Building an Interactive Mobile Application to Enhance Students’ Problem Solving Skills in Higher Education Physics

Ehab Malkawi, Shaikha Alhadrami, Afaf Aljabri

2019

Abstract

Problem solving is a major part of the learning process that students need to acquire in their university education as it combines several skills within, such as comprehension, memory recall, critical thinking, and mathematical skills. Even though instructors and students recognize the importance of problem solving, generally both groups fail to culminate this corner step in the learning process. Students fail to realize that it is not the final answer of an assignment that is the important outcome, but rather the learning process and skills that are gained through problem solving. Technology and mobile applications can harvest the students’ attention in the process of problem solving and make them more willing to learn. We discuss the case of building an interactive mobile application that fosters the major steps in problem solving. The application is built to guide, help, encourage, motivate the students, and create a more interactive and exciting environment. It is built on an algorithm that relies on the major steps of problem solving. The first version of the mobile (Android) application is produced.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Malkawi E., Alhadrami S. and Aljabri A. (2019). Building an Interactive Mobile Application to Enhance Students’ Problem Solving Skills in Higher Education Physics.In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-367-4, pages 550-555. DOI: 10.5220/0007780105500555

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu19,
author={Ehab Malkawi and Shaikha Alhadrami and Afaf Aljabri},
title={Building an Interactive Mobile Application to Enhance Students’ Problem Solving Skills in Higher Education Physics},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2019},
pages={550-555},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007780105500555},
isbn={978-989-758-367-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - Building an Interactive Mobile Application to Enhance Students’ Problem Solving Skills in Higher Education Physics
SN - 978-989-758-367-4
AU - Malkawi E.
AU - Alhadrami S.
AU - Aljabri A.
PY - 2019
SP - 550
EP - 555
DO - 10.5220/0007780105500555