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WIP: Design, Development and Implementation of a “Web Technologies” Android Application for Higher Education

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Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL 2017)

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New technologies have been developing rapidly during the last few years affecting all aspects of everyday life. Mobile devices have been spread among higher education students altering the nature of communication and interaction between them. In this work in progress, we design and propose the implementation of an educational application for the android operating system. The application’s context will be created according to the content of the course “Web Technologies”, of the first year of studies, in the Department of Informatics of the University of Piraeus. After this application is completed, it will be evaluated and through this process we aim to find out whether such a mobile application can be intriguing for students and in addition whether it can enhance their learning experience.

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This work has been partly supported by the European Project Mitigate and the University of Piraeus Research Center.

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

    Eleni Seralidou & Christos Douligeris

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Seralidou, E., Douligeris, C. (2018). WIP: Design, Development and Implementation of a “Web Technologies” Android Application for Higher Education. In: Auer, M., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning. IMCL 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 725. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75175-7_14

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