IJSEA Archive (Volume 2, Issue 8)
International Journal of Science and Engineering Applications (IJSEA) (Volume 2, Issue 8 - August 2013)
M-Learning for children of 5-12 age groups in rural area of India
Keywords: mobile learning, android , NIMUs, animation, Informal learning.
Internet has touched the urban and educated society in a big way. However the rural and less educated society is yet to
enjoy the benefits. In India there are large number of non Internet Mobile users (NIMUs) -7.5 NIMUs for every internet users .It is
hence essential that applications and products are designed with care and with usability in mind. Our own nation with a 1.2 billion
population offers a business huge opportunity to develop socially relevant mobile applications for Rural India. Hence the primary
objective of the paper is to reach to the NIMUs with mobile phone technologies and applications. The paper focus on implementing
the M-learning application for NIMUs which display the animation of story and the voice will be played in the background .Beside
the animation of story, the application has choices to display the story ,record the voice while reading the story ,videos of story and
quizzes about the story , by keeping in mind the mental growth of child 5-12 age group.
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journal = "International Journal of Science and Engineering Applications (IJSEA)",
volume = "2",
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pages = "162 - 165",
year = "2013",
author = " Amrapali Mhaisgawali ",
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