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Getting Serious About a Platform Independent Application for the Usage of Mobile Moodle Quizzes: A Case Study Stefan Geisler, Marc Jansen 1 S. Geisler, M. Jansen: A Platform Independent App for Mobile Moodle Quizzes: A Case Study Contents


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Getting Serious About a Platform Independent Application for the Usage of Mobile Moodle Quizzes: A Case Study

Stefan Geisler, Marc Jansen

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  • Introduction
  • The System
  • The Case Study
  • Summary and Outlook

Contents

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Introduction

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Source: Gartner Smartphone Forecast

Smart Devices Getting in (Almost) Every Student‘s Bag

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No unified Architecture or OS

Image Sources: Webpages of the different companies

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  • Development Goals
  • System that supports access to quizzes of Moodle

eLearning system

  • Minimal modification effort for porting to another OS
  • Running on different device types (e.g. screen size and

resolution)

  • Intuitive user interface
  • Research Goals
  • Suitable software architecture
  • flexibility and performance
  • User acceptance
  • Preferred field of application

Development and Research Goals

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The System

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Technical Implementation

Moodle DB Web Services Application Server Webpage Servlet Mobile Devices App Based on HTML5 and JavaScript using GWT

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  • App developed to optimize UI (compared to generic

Webbrowser usage)

  • Using HTML5 and Javascript leads to easy

portability to other modern OS for mobile devices

  • Limited functionality to Moodle quizzes
  • allows quick access to desired function
  • Designed UI to work on different screen sizes and

resolutions The Mobile Application

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Screenshots from an Android Device

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Screenshots from an Apple iPhone

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The Case Study

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  • Based on technology acceptance model
  • as published by Davis, F. D.; Bagozzi, R. P.; Warshaw, P.

R.: User Acceptance of Computer Technology: A Comparison of Two Theoretical Models. In: Management Science 35(8): 982-1003. 1989.

  • Adapted to fit to eLearning environment
  • To categories of questions
  • Perceived Usefulness
  • Perceived Ease of Use
  • 7-level Likert scale for rating

Technology Acceptance Test

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PU – Perceived Usefulness PEU – Perceived Ease of Use The MobileMoodleQuiz app …

Q1.1: … helps me to repeat content and to deepen it Q2.1: … is easy to learn Q1.2: … with time and location independent access allows me to use the Moodle system more often and helps to better understand the learning content Q2.2:Reverse: … is unflexible in its usage Q1.3: … used in lessons and excercises helps me in to follow the lecture and to understand the learning content more efficiently Q2.3: … is easy to handle and reacts as assumed Q1.4: Reverse: … usage limits my productivity in formal learning settings Q2.4: … handling is easy to understand Q1.5: … eases the enduring learning Q2.5: Reverse: … makes it difficult to remember how to achieve certain exercises Q1.6: Reverse: … hindered the enduring learning Q2.6: Reverse: working with the app is exertive Q1.7: … helps me to increase my course achievements Q2.7: … is overall user‐friendly Q1.8: … is

  • verall

meaningful for usage university

Questionaire

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  • Participants
  • N=17 students applied of computer

science

  • 7 used iOS, 10 Android
  • 12 experienced, 5 inexperienced
  • Execution
  • Getting familiar: free trial
  • 1st task: find out available quizzes
  • 2nd task: quiz with short question text

and few answers

  • 3rd task: quiz with long question text

and many answers

Conducting the Test

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Results: Perceived Usefulness

The MobileMoodleQuiz app …

Q1.1: … helps me to repeat content and to deepen it Q1.2: … with time and location independent access allows me to use the Moodle system more often and helps to better understand the learning content Q1.3: … used in lessons and excercises helps me in to follow the lecture and to understand the learning content more efficiently Q1.4: Reverse: … usage limits my productivity in formal learning settings Q1.5: … eases the enduring learning Q1.6: Reverse: … hindered the enduring learning Q1.7: … helps me to increase my course achievements Q1.8: … is overall meaningful for usage university Reverse questions rated with 8­value Overall average: 5.62, std. dev.: 0.46; high value for usefulness Cronbach‘s alpha: 0.55, low consistency, further evaluation with improved questionnaire, more specific test material and improved test environment necessary

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Results: Perceived Ease of Use

Reverse questions rated with 8­value Overall average: 5.3, std. dev.: 1.03; high value for ease of use, detail improvements were suggested and will be implemented Cronbach‘s alpha: 0.89, high consistency

The MobileMoodleQuiz app …

Q2.1: … is easy to learn Q2.2:Reverse: … is inflexible in its usage Q2.3: … is easy to handle and reacts as assumed Q2.4: … handling is easy to understand Q2.5: Reverse: … makes it difficult to remember how to achieve certain exercises Q2.6: Reverse: working with the app is exertive Q2.7: … is overall user‐friendly

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Summary and Outlook

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  • The evaluated system offers quick access to quizzes

if the Moodle eLearning system

  • Usefulness confirmed, more detailed study on

preferred field of application required

  • Ease of use for platform independent user interface

confirmed, details can be improved

  • Future work
  • provide more types of questions
  • larger study with application over a complete semester
  • comparison with other existing mLearning approaches

Summary and Outlook

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Contacts

stefan.geisler@hs-ruhrwest.de marc.jansen@hs-ruhrwest.de