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Training Oriented Mobile Device to Learn Software Architecture

Authors:
Sanae Mostadi
Fabrice Mourlin

Keywords: mobile device; distributed system; software architecture; teaching mobility

Abstract:
Teaching new technologies has two facets. A first facet is the pleasure to discover new concepts with beginners. The second facet is the difficulty to create the right training for students who will apply this knowledge through an internship by the end of the training. Since January 2013, our challenge has been to prepare a new training about nomadic device and Android programming. Our training is structured as a master's degree in our UPEC University (Paris). This document presents both aspects of this master degree: the construction of the training and the perception of teaching activities by the students. We observe that the use of a tablet or a smart phone during the lessons is not enough. Pragmatic approach is limited even if it is a help for the participation of students, and a motivation for teachers and students in a computer science context where it is crucial to explore new domains. Learning with device provides a more practical teaching. But its use has to be completed by knowledge validation with it. Because devices take place into teaching approach, the whole process of teaching has to evolve into a more interactive exchange between teachers and students.

Pages: 75 to 81

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: March 23, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4367

ISBN: 978-1-61208-328-5

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from March 23, 2014 to March 27, 2014