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A Streamlined Mobile User-Interface for Improved Access to LMS Services

Authors:
Grace Ssekakubo
Hussein Suleman
Gary Marsden

Keywords: Learning Management Systems; Developing Countries; Mobile Phones; Mobile interfaces; User-centered Design

Abstract:
Universities in developing countries face greater challenges in implementing Learning Management Systems (LMSs) due to resource-poor settings, characterized by: low levels of ICT infrastructure; electricity outages; few computers; and limited and expensive Internet bandwidth, among other constraints. It is anticipated that if mobile phones are carefully integrated into the ecologies of LMSs, the impact of some of the above challenges in implementing LMSs would be reduced. This paper presents a user-centered design process of mobile LMS interfaces for accessing selected LMS services on mobile phones, and a user experience evaluation for a mobile LMS application implementation. From the design and implementation processes of the mLMS (mobile LMS), and the user experience evaluation of a working mLMS prototype, we conclude that: the ideas presented in the mLMS are technically feasible; the application is useful to the students and the students are encouraged to use their mobile phones to access LMS services more often, thereby reducing the over-reliance and pressure on the constrained institutional ICT resources.

Pages: 92 to 101

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