Shamsul Arrieya Ariffin
Syamsul Bahrin Zaibon
ABSTRACT
The emergence of mobile learning, or mLearning, gives students hope to become more motivated to learn STEM by bringing their personal mobile devices. This study investigated Malaysian students' STEM mobile learning experiences through student-generated activities in learning STEM. STEM has the lowest uptake for Malaysian students as the subjects are difficult to understand. Therefore, this study embarked on the methodology, which was mainly qualitative in order to have an in-depth inquiry through focus group discussions with students from universities in Malaysia. The findings were themes developed from the data gained prior to student-generated activities. Next, the themes that emerged after the student-generated activities. Finally, mLearning best practices for STEM had been proposed for student-generated activities. Likewise, the main contribution of this study was insights from the Malaysian universities and lecturers’ perspectives for mLearning student-generated activities in STEM subjects. The implications of this study are the best practices for mLearning at Malaysian universities.
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Index Terms
- Perceptions of MLearning Student Generated Activities for STEM in Educational Paradigm at Malaysian Universities
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