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Based On The The Wap2.0 Technology Adult Mobile Learning Platform For Building Research

Posted on:2009-07-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C L LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2208360242999412Subject:Education Technology
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The rapid development of information technology promotes the information process of the whole society, and has also stepped up its education towards modernization and the pace of informationization .As an important education form, distance education will have a rapid development with the development of the information technology. The mature of the Computer technology, multimedia technology, wired communication technologies makes the means of long-distance education have a qualitative leap and also make long-distance education have a significant development and a great success in recent years. It is not the education characters of the technology itself that makes the great success of the long-distance education and Open University, but the technology widely owned by the public makes this success. With the mobile learning is being widely used and the development of mobile communications network, mobile Learning gradually becomes the trends and hot spots in the research and application of the long-distance education.Mobile learning (in short-learning)is a combined product of the digital learning and the wireless mobile communication technology, it takes the mobile phone ,the PDA and the other mobile terminals as the study tools ,delivers the teaching information by wireless communications technology, also it is a learning mode that the learners can study at anytime and in anywhere. It has the characters of flexibility, efficiency, interactivity, extensiveness, personality and so on, it can bring the learners the new feelings of studying at anytime and in anywhere.Adult education is an integral part of the lifelong education system. They are the relationship of the interdependence and making the other more perfect, it is an indispensable component part of the modern education system, it has an irreplaceable role in improving all workers and to expand the chance for people to be educated and to make the society develop better and faster, especially in this era of knowledge-based economy, the importance of adult education has become more prominent, and has become a global movement.As the adult learners are busy with their work, have fewer whole time and always have things to distract their energy and so on, therefore the form of the adult education should be more flexible and be diverse in order to better adapt to the characteristics of adult learning, with the characters of flexibility and personality etc, the M-learning is very suitable to meet adult learners' requirement, it provides a more convenient and flexible way for the adult learners to make lifelong learning.WAP2.0 is the Wap version published by the WAP forum in June 2001. It makes a lot of optimization and improvement on the basis of the Wap1.x.The designated development language XHTML MP and WCSS have a richer form and can be more exact in describing content. Therefore it has a unique advantage in developing the mobile learning platform.The author is on the basis of doing some research and summarizing the basis theory of the M-learning and adult education, under the premise of in-depth analysis of the mobile communication, uses Asp and WAP2.0 technology and other technologies that are related with WAP2.0 to develop the adult mobile learning platform and has realized some functions. The adult learners can login in this platform in the way of mobile phone WAP, then they can browse the learning materials online or they can download them and read them offline, in addition the platform also provides the function to publish the information and to push information, to upload or download learning materials, to exchange their ideas online, to complete their homework and submit them online, to be managed online and so on.This paper is completed on the basis of referencing a lot of materials that are home and abroad and doing a large number of practices. It aims at contributing to make the M-learning theory into practice and further study of the M-learning.
Keywords/Search Tags:WAP2.0, M-learning, Adult education, Learning platform
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