skip to main content
10.1145/2786567.2801609acmconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PagesmobilehciConference Proceedingsconference-collections
poster

What Happens when Students Go Offline in Mobile Devices?

Published: 24 August 2015 Publication History

Abstract

On the web a new class of learning environments has emerged: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Depending on the social and cultural context, there could be barriers preventing students from using e-Learning platforms. Technology can alleviate the problems of using MOOCs in several contexts. For example, the use of mobile devices together with the Internet might be very useful. However, the introduction of mobile technology in these environments is challenging, mainly because there are many differences between mobile devices and desktop environments. Keeping these differences in mind, the main goal of this work is to find and analyse strategies and changes in a user's behaviour in offline contexts using mobile devices. Through a case study, the main strategies are studied. Then, using an offline support tool for web environments, the most suitable strategy is used to test a web application's feasibility in offline scenarios.

References

[1]
Albertos Marco, F., Gallud, J. A., R. Penichet, V. M., Winckler, M. (2013). A Model-Based Approach for Supporting Offline Interaction with Web Sites Resilient to Interruptions. In Q. Z. Sheng & J. Kjeldskov (Eds.), Proc. of Current Trends in Web Engineering - ICWE 2013 International Workshops (Vol. 8295, pp. 156--171). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
[2]
Albertos Marco, F., Penichet, V. M. R., & Gallud, J. A. (2013). Offline Web Applications: A New Model for Blended Learning. In 2nd International Workshop on Interaction Design in Educational Environments (IDEE 2013), ICEIS 2013. Angers, (France)
[3]
Charland, A. and LeRoux, B. (2011). Mobile Application Development: Web vs. Native. Queue 9, 4, Pages 20 (April 2011), 9 pages. DOI=10.1145/1966989.1968203 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1966989.1968203
[4]
Güler, Ç., Kılıç, E., Çavuş H. (2014). A comparison of difficulties in instructional design processes: Mobile vs. desktop, Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 39, October 2014, Pages 128--135, ISSN 0747-5632, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.07.008
[5]
Ijtihadie, R. M., Chisaki, Y., Usagawa, T., Cahyo, H. B., & Affandi, A. (2010). Offline web application and quiz synchronization for e-learning activity for mobile browser. In TENCON 2010 - 2010 IEEE Region 10 Conference (pp. 2402--2405). IEEE.
[6]
Kao, Y.-W., Lin, C., Yang, K.-A., & Yuan, S.-M. (2012). A Web-based, Offline-able, and Personalized Runtime Environment for executing applications on mobile devices. Computer Standards & Interfaces, 34(1), 212--224.
[7]
Liu, L., Goncalves, J., Ferreira, D., Xiao, B., Hosio, S. and Kostakos, V. (2014). CHI 1994-2013: mapping two decades of intellectual progress through co-word analysis. In Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3553--3562. DOI=10.1145/2556288.2556969 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2556288.2556969
[8]
Moodle. https://moodle.org (accessed May 2015)
[9]
Moodle Mobile. https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_Mobile (accessed May 2015)
[10]
openSAP. https://open.sap.com (accessed May 2015)
[11]
PhoneGap. http://phonegap.com (accessed May 2015)
[12]
Renz, J., Staubitz, T., and Meinel, C. (2014). MOOC TO GO. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference Mobile Learning 2014, 125--132. ISBN: 978-989-8704-02-3
[13]
Valderrama Bahamóndez, E.C., Pfleging, B., Henze, N., and Schmidt, A. (2014). A long-term field study on the adoption of smartphones by children in panama. In Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices & services (MobileHCI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 163--172. DOI=10.1145/2628363.2628403 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2628363.2628403
[14]
W3C. (2014). HTML5 A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML. W3C Recommendation 28 October 2014. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ (accessed May 2015)
[15]
W3C. (2014). Web Storage. Editor's Draft 14 May 2014. Retrieved from http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage (accessed May 2015)
[16]
W3C. (2010). Web Database. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/ (accessed May 2015)
[17]
W3C. (2015a). Indexed Database API. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/ (accessed May 2015)
[18]
W3C. (2008). Offline Web Applications. W3C Working Group Note 30 May 2008. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/offline-webapps/ (accessed May 2015)

Cited By

View all
  • (2024)Progressive Web Application for Storytelling Therapy SupportProceedings of the XXIV International Conference on Human Computer Interaction10.1145/3657242.3658588(1-8)Online publication date: 19-Jun-2024
  • (2021)Video Consumption with Mobile Applications in a Global Enterprise MOOC ContextInnovations in Learning and Technology for the Workplace and Higher Education10.1007/978-3-030-90677-1_5(49-60)Online publication date: 13-Nov-2021
  • (2020)Dispositivos móviles en la educación: tendencias e impacto para la innovaciónRevista Politécnica10.33571/rpolitec.v16n31a816:31(97-109)Online publication date: 30-May-2020
  • Show More Cited By

Index Terms

  1. What Happens when Students Go Offline in Mobile Devices?

    Recommendations

    Comments

    Information & Contributors

    Information

    Published In

    cover image ACM Conferences
    MobileHCI '15: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct
    August 2015
    697 pages
    ISBN:9781450336536
    DOI:10.1145/2786567
    Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.

    Sponsors

    Publisher

    Association for Computing Machinery

    New York, NY, United States

    Publication History

    Published: 24 August 2015

    Check for updates

    Author Tags

    1. Learning
    2. Mobile
    3. Moodle
    4. Offline
    5. Web

    Qualifiers

    • Poster
    • Research
    • Refereed limited

    Conference

    MobileHCI '15
    Sponsor:

    Acceptance Rates

    Overall Acceptance Rate 202 of 906 submissions, 22%

    Contributors

    Other Metrics

    Bibliometrics & Citations

    Bibliometrics

    Article Metrics

    • Downloads (Last 12 months)5
    • Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0
    Reflects downloads up to 15 Feb 2025

    Other Metrics

    Citations

    Cited By

    View all
    • (2024)Progressive Web Application for Storytelling Therapy SupportProceedings of the XXIV International Conference on Human Computer Interaction10.1145/3657242.3658588(1-8)Online publication date: 19-Jun-2024
    • (2021)Video Consumption with Mobile Applications in a Global Enterprise MOOC ContextInnovations in Learning and Technology for the Workplace and Higher Education10.1007/978-3-030-90677-1_5(49-60)Online publication date: 13-Nov-2021
    • (2020)Dispositivos móviles en la educación: tendencias e impacto para la innovaciónRevista Politécnica10.33571/rpolitec.v16n31a816:31(97-109)Online publication date: 30-May-2020
    • (2020)On the Potential of Automated Downloads for MOOC Content on Mobile Devices2020 IEEE Learning With MOOCS (LWMOOCS)10.1109/LWMOOCS50143.2020.9234338(58-63)Online publication date: 29-Sep-2020
    • (2020)Developing a Desktop-based Offline Quiz Application2020 IEEE Conference on e-Learning, e-Management and e-Services (IC3e)10.1109/IC3e50159.2020.9288376(98-103)Online publication date: 17-Nov-2020
    • (2019)A Quantitative Study on the Effects of Learning with Mobile Devices in MOOCs2019 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Education (TALE)10.1109/TALE48000.2019.9226023(1-7)Online publication date: Dec-2019
    • (2019)From MOOCs to Micro Learning Activities2019 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)10.1109/EDUCON.2019.8725043(280-288)Online publication date: Apr-2019
    • (2019)Applied Mobile-Assisted Seamless Learning Techniques in MOOCsLectures on Quantum Statistics10.1007/978-3-030-19875-6_3(21-30)Online publication date: 8-May-2019
    • (2018)Stationary vs. Non-stationary Mobile Learning in MOOCsAdjunct Publication of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization10.1145/3213586.3225241(299-303)Online publication date: 2-Jul-2018
    • (2018)A Study on How Users Perceive Distributed Interactions on Web ApplicationsIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2018.28736786(57389-57399)Online publication date: 2018
    • Show More Cited By

    View Options

    Login options

    View options

    PDF

    View or Download as a PDF file.

    PDF

    eReader

    View online with eReader.

    eReader

    Figures

    Tables

    Media

    Share

    Share

    Share this Publication link

    Share on social media