Student Involvement in Mobile-Learning: Case of Ibn Tofail University

Abstract

In last years, the use of cell phones has reached new heights. This inflfluences teaching methods at universities. The integration of mobile technologies into the teaching process can encourage the students to be more involved in the online learning process.The main challenges of mobile learning can be summarized in the changing attitudes in the educational fifield, being able to develop adequate pedagogical frameworks, good design (pedagogical and visual) and providing the right methods to control the involvement of the learners.Although mobile devices are highly present in the daily life of learners and trainers, the use of these technologies in distance education appears to still be low. The objective of this research is to measure the involvement of the students who are using smartphones compared to those who are using desktop computers by monitoring the learner’s activity on the platform.To carry out this research, we used three Moodle distance-learning platforms from Ibn Tofail University to collect data. This data was processed by machine learning algorithms in an effort to see a link between the use of the mobile and the involvement of a student in an online learning.