Mobile computing device as tools for college student education: a case on flashcards application

摘要

Traditionally, college students always use flash cards as a tool to remember massive knowledge, such as nomenclature,structures, and reactions in chemistry. Educational and information technology have enabled flashcards viewed oncomputers, like Slides and PowerPoint, works as tunnels of drilling and feedback for the learners. The current generationof students is more capable of information technology and mobile computing devices. For example, they use theirMobile phones much more intensively everyday day. Trends of using Mobile phone as an educational tool is analyzedand a educational technology initiative is proposed, which use Mobile phone flash cards applications to help studentslearn biology and chemistry. Experiments show that users responded positively to these mobile flash cards.© (2012) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.