PROPOSING A NEW TECHNICAL QUALITY REQUIREMENTS FRAMEWORK FOR MOBILE LEARNING APPLICATIONS

摘要

Most of mobile learning applications might fail and not effectively used just because of bad selection of appropriate technical requirements, which affects the quality and increases the production cost of mobile learning applications. For the development of effective and successful mobile learning applications, it is important to identify set of technical quality requirements for mobile learning applications. With this work, we developed a new framework to capture most crucial technical quality dimensions and requirements for the development of mobile learning applications. To better understand and identify the list of technical quality dimensions and requirements a Delphi study was carried out. This method allowed us to reach a consensus in three rounds and counted with the participation of 30 experts in the Software Engineering, Information Systems and mobile learning fields. As a result of the Delphi study, a specific framework comprised by 19 technical quality requirements divided in six quality dimensions was developed for the development of mobile learning applications. This framework is expected to guide the designers and developers for a successful development process of mobile learning applications.