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Accredited Social Health Activists in India play a critical role in improving the access to healthcare services of rural populations. Despite their key contribution in Millennium Development Goals, they receive inadequate training and supervision. ...

The Healthcare system of India provides outreach services to the rural population with a key focus on the maternal and child health through its flagship program of Community Health Workers (CHWs). The program since its launch has reached a scale of over ...

This communication presents the results derived from a study carried out in the University of Salamanca to analyze the intention to use mobile devices in the future teaching practice of the student from the Pre-primary Education Teacher Bachelor's Degree ...

Nowadays, there is a significant increase of ICT in learning-teaching of foreign languages, at the different training levels of educational institutions. Therefore, it is necessary to thoroughly examine the state-of-the-art associated with the use of ICT ...

The aim of this research is to contribute to the general system education providing new insights and resources. This study performs a quasi-experimental study at University of Salamanca with 30 students to compare results between using an anatomic app ...

Over a period of three years, 255 teachers at 26 schools in Cofimvaba, which lies in the very rural Nciba district of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, have been using mobile tablets in their classrooms to support teaching and learning. The ...

The present communication describes the design of a study on the acceptance of mobile technologies among primary education teachers of Castilla y León.

The investigation design is based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) conceived by Davis in ...

Mobile learning is currently spreading from the informal education field to the formal one. In this process, teacher involvement occupies a central role, and in order to ensure it is necessary to know the factors that lead to the acceptance of these ...

The Virtual Campus has been around for about 20 years. It provides an online environment that mimics the processes and services of the physical campuses and classrooms. Its adoption is almost complete in countries where Internet access has become ...

This paper describes several experiments performed by our research group to show the use of smartphones in physics teaching. We document our work on the development of apps for smartphones and on how to use recorded sensor data. As a final result, some ...

As mobile technologies have gained presence in all social groups, the interest for their applications in the educational field has grown steadily. The present article proposes an exploration of the concept of mobile learning with the intention of ...

University lecturers are usually experts within a specific context domain of knowledge, however they are seldom expert teachers or educational technology wizards. Facilitating professional development for lecturers to engage with innovation in teaching ...

Learning has evolved significantly, creating several challenges for the traditional educational system. This paradigm shift in education is imminent and has since gathered a great deal of interest in recent years, as an attempt to bridge the ...

The goal of the project described in this paper was to explore the possibility of developing an automatic system for treating contents based on user analysis and mobile scenarios, using HCI [4] methodologies to design the output, with the objective to ...

The rapid proliferation of mobile devices nationally coupled with high levels of individual ownership both nationally and internationally provide many opportunities for exploring ways in which students own mobile devices might be integrated into ...

In this paper, we present EDUCA, a Web 2.0 software tool to allow a community of authors and learners to create, share, and view learning materials and web resources in an adaptive environment which combines collaborative, mobile and e-learning methods. ...

Mobile learning objects must not be designed and developed as learning objects for personal computers, becoming just an adaptation to the restrictions of the interface of mobile devices. They should be designed, developed and used taking into ...