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Recommendations for Mobile Virtual Campus Design Based on Student Feedback

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In this paper we present a series of recommendations designed to guide universities in the development of mobile learning environments, based on a case study of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC), an online university. A focus group was organized to gather students’ views on the three mobile developments for the UOC’s Virtual Campus: a hybrid app, an adapted version for mobile browsers, and an e-mail client app. The results obtained from the focus group reveal that students already use the UOC’s mobile developments in their day-to-day activities and expect this use to increase in the future. The principal recommendations address the need to develop a mobile learning environment with the scalability to accommodate new functionalities and services and the multi-device capability to meet the students’ choice of device, and the importance of a user-centered design (UCD) approach to meet student requirements.

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This paper has been done within the framework of the MAVSEL project: Mining, data Analysis and Visualization based on Social models in E-Learning, TIN2010-21715-C02-02.

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    Pablo Rebaque-Rivas & Eva P. Gil-Rodríguez

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Rebaque-Rivas, P., Gil-Rodríguez, E.P. (2015). Recommendations for Mobile Virtual Campus Design Based on Student Feedback. In: Zvacek, S., Restivo, M., Uhomoibhi, J., Helfert, M. (eds) Computer Supported Education. CSEDU 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 510. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25768-6_24

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