VSPad : harnessing learning styles among mobile learners

Educational applications that run on mobile devices are fast emerging, supporting a variety of learning activities. Yet one crucial area that has received little attention to date involves the learning styles of users and whether these affect their rate of learning. This paper describes the design a...

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Main Authors: Theng, Yin-Leng, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, Lee, Chu Keong, Choy, Michael Seng Kim
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-916612019-12-06T18:09:47Z VSPad : harnessing learning styles among mobile learners Theng, Yin-Leng Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian Lee, Chu Keong Choy, Michael Seng Kim School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Education::Educational technology::Computer assisted instruction Educational applications that run on mobile devices are fast emerging, supporting a variety of learning activities. Yet one crucial area that has received little attention to date involves the learning styles of users and whether these affect their rate of learning. This paper describes the design and development of Visuo-Spatial Pad (VSPad), an application running on mobile devices that helps people remember lists of keywords better using their visual, spatial and auditory strengths. VSPad uses the number keypad structure of mobile phones for learners to remember the starting letters of keywords. Learners highlight letters that the keywords start with and whenever a list needs to be recalled, they simply retrace the way their fingers moved. Letters are associated with unique tones, helping auditory learners as well. The VSPad is also network-enabled, allowing keyword lists to be shared among learners. Accepted version 2010-01-04T08:10:52Z 2019-12-06T18:09:47Z 2010-01-04T08:10:52Z 2019-12-06T18:09:47Z 2004 2004 Journal Article Goh, D. H. L., Theng, Y.-L., Lee, C. K., & Choy, M. S. K. (2004). VSPad: harnessing learning styles among mobile learners. Proceedings of E-Learn 2004: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education, (November 1-5, Washington, DC, USA), 2646-2651. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/91661 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6179 http://www.editlib.org/p/11282. en Proceedings of e-learn 2004 : world conference on e-learning in corporate, government, healthcare and higher education © 2004 AACE This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Proceedings of E-Learn 2004: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [URL: http://www.editlib.org/p/11282 ]. 7 p. application/pdf
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VSPad : harnessing learning styles among mobile learners
description Educational applications that run on mobile devices are fast emerging, supporting a variety of learning activities. Yet one crucial area that has received little attention to date involves the learning styles of users and whether these affect their rate of learning. This paper describes the design and development of Visuo-Spatial Pad (VSPad), an application running on mobile devices that helps people remember lists of keywords better using their visual, spatial and auditory strengths. VSPad uses the number keypad structure of mobile phones for learners to remember the starting letters of keywords. Learners highlight letters that the keywords start with and whenever a list needs to be recalled, they simply retrace the way their fingers moved. Letters are associated with unique tones, helping auditory learners as well. The VSPad is also network-enabled, allowing keyword lists to be shared among learners.
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title VSPad : harnessing learning styles among mobile learners
title_short VSPad : harnessing learning styles among mobile learners
title_full VSPad : harnessing learning styles among mobile learners
title_fullStr VSPad : harnessing learning styles among mobile learners
title_full_unstemmed VSPad : harnessing learning styles among mobile learners
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