Woods, Will and Scanlon, Eileen
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Abstract
This paper reports on the progress that has been made towards the development of a mobile application to enable people to learn more about natural history by helping them to identify observations of nature as part of the iSpot project www.ispot.org. The paper identifies relevant research in mobile learning within the field of science and the challenges faced when designing and developing a mobile application for participatory science including the user-centred design approach and evaluation process that were adopted for the development. The paper includes lessions learned when adoptingan agile and iterative approach to mobile application development.
| Item Type: | Conference Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2012 mlearn |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Institute of Educational Technology |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) |
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| Item ID: | 35385 |
| Depositing User: | Eileen Scanlon |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Nov 2012 09:38 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Aug 2016 18:54 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/35385 |
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