HTML5 BASED SYSTEM FOR MOBILE LEARNING
HTML5 BASED SYSTEM FOR MOBILE LEARNING

Summary/Abstract: In recent years, university education is undergoing major changes regarding ways of teaching. It must meet the emerging challenges and to adapt to them. Increasingly, in educational institutions and their educational levels are offered distance courses or Web-based training aids. Having a wide range of new technologies help realize innovative training methods, thereby expanding traditional. Mobile learning is one of these new innovative methods. One of the advantages of m-learning is that it is fixed on increasing the ability of students to organize themselves their training. Through this kind of training they have the opportunity to learn, using their own mobile devices, anytime and anywhere. Mobile learning is extremely flexible, as is practically available. It opens new opportunities for students who otherwise could not participate in the traditional learning process for one or another reason. Mobility enables students to be in contact with their peers, teachers and educational resources when they are unable to attend traditional training. This report describes a HTML5 based system for mobile learning developed in the University of Ruse. The system is adaptable depending on the used device - personal computer or mobile device. When a PC is used the system supports four user groups - administrator, teacher, student and guest. When a mobile device is used the system supports two user groups - student and guest. The system is designed on a modular basis. Separating the business logic from the user interface enables faster and more easily update of the system. As mobile devices are characterized by the small screen and limited methods for input the information compared to PCs, the interface design for mobile version is consistent with these characteristics and does not burden customers with unnecessary complexity.

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