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This book explores how smartphones affect teaching activities, students' behavior, and learning outcomes. The Internet and smartphones are a very recent phenomenon and are evolving very rapidly, and new devices, software apps and methodologies that may upset previous understandings are emerging on a regular basis. Based on the latest research, this book shares various current perspectives and encourages continuing dialog to allow the education community to react in a timely manner to any new developments, and as such improve classroom outcomes.
List of contents
About Smartphones and Education.- How and Why Students Use Smart Phones.- The Effect of Smartphones on Traditional Education.- Using Smart phone to Enhance Education.- Measuring the Effects.- Case Studies.- Successful Strategies.
About the author
Prof Dinesh Kant Kumar, B.Tech from IIT Madras, and PhD from IIT Delhi, is a Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He has published over 400 papers, authored 5 books and is on a range of Australian and international committees for Biomedical Engineering. His passion is for affordable- diagnostics and making a difference for his students. His work has been cited over 5600 times and he has also had multiple successes with technology translation.
Dr Peterjohn Radcliffe, B.Eng. from Melbourne University and PhD from RMIT, is a senior lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia. He has been teaching since 1986 and maintains strong links with industry both with project work and consulting. His passion is ensuring that RMIT graduates have both the professional and technical skills to be keenly sought after by industry. His technical interests include networking, network security, IoT, embedded systems and mobile computing
