JCSE, vol. 4, no. 1, pp.80-95, 2010

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User-centered Design of m-Learning System: Moodle On The Go

Miroslav Minovic, Velimir Stavljanin, Milos Milovanovic, Dusan Starcevic
School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract: In order to truly integrate e-Learning system into regular curriculum at a university, mobileaccess to Learning Management Systems has to be enabled. Mobile devices have the potentialto be integrated into the classroom, because they contain unique characteristics such asportability, social interactivity, context sensitivity, connectivity and individuality. Adoption ofLearning Management Systems by students is still on the low rate, mostly because of poorusability of existing e-Learning systems. Our initial research has confirmed this hypothesis.Usability issue is rising to the higher level on the mobile platform, because of the mobile devices’limited screen size, input interfaces and bandwidth, and also because of the context of use. Oursecond hypothesis was that it is wrong to consider a mobile device as a surrogate for desktopor laptop personal computer (PC). By just adopting the existing Learning Management Systemon mobile devices with adaptive technologies such as Google proxy, we do not acquire thesatisfactory results. Usability can prove to be even lower compared to desktop application. Onepossible solution to the problem could be development of rich client applications for today’smobile devices that woul

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