Mobile Learning to promote Renewable Energy Education at the Secondary Education level in developing countries.

Abstract

Abstract Education is a fundamental component in advancing society towards a cleaner and sustainable energy consumption route. To achieve and promote the Sustainable development Goals (SDG’s) education will play a pivotal role in creating awareness and promotion of Renewable energy concepts amongst the general public. Malaysia and Bangladesh are two ambitious countries that has implemented various policies to harness energy from renewable sources but lacked to achieve their targets. This is mainly due to lack of RE education and interest and awareness amongst the public. Recent studies have shown a significant lack of RE curriculum specially in the secondary level of education in most of the developing countries. This lack of curriculum can directly impact the societal process to shift to a sustainable green energy future due to the lack of interest, awareness in students for RE career and importance. This gap of introducing RE education into the secondary education curriculum can be fulfilled by using Mobile Learning (M-Learning) methods and technologies as means to educate secondary schools students about RE. Both the countries have a population well equipped with smart devices and internet access thus equipping people with greater mobility, communication, and access to resources all over the world via the Internet, which can be used potentially to incorporate within the education sector as a mean for teaching and learning. Thus, this paper aims to highlight the educational strategies, theories and components that are associated with mobile learning and propose a mobile learning system that can be used to incorporate RE education in secondary education level in countries like Malaysia and Bangladesh.