IJSEA Volume 2 Issue 8

M-Learning for children of 5-12 age groups in rural area of India

Amrapali Mhaisgawali,
10.7753/IJSEA0208.1002
keywords : mobile learning, android , NIMUs, animation, Informal learning.

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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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Title = "M-Learning for children of 5-12 age groups in rural area of India",
Journal ="International Journal of Science and Engineering Applications (IJSEA)",
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Pages ="162 - 165",
Year = "2013",
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IJSEA Volume 2 Issue 8

M-Learning for children of 5-12 age groups in rural area of India

Amrapali Mhaisgawali,
10.7753/IJSEA0208.1002
keywords : mobile learning, android , NIMUs, animation, Informal learning.

PDF
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.
@artical{a282013ijsea02081002,
Title = "M-Learning for children of 5-12 age groups in rural area of India",
Journal ="International Journal of Science and Engineering Applications (IJSEA)",
Volume = "2",
Issue ="8",
Pages ="162 - 165",
Year = "2013",
Authors ="Amrapali Mhaisgawali, "}