Emerging Trends and Technologies Mobile Apps for Education Perspective
*S.Vijayakumar, Research Scholar, BharathiyarUniversity,Coimbatore ** Dr.V.RameshBabu , Librarian, T.B.M.L College,Porayar ,Tranquebar
Abstract
Present study conducted the trends and technologies of mobile application for Education. The adoption of the mobile phone by people has been a global phenomenon in recent years. It is now an integral part of peoplesdaily lives and is for the majority, the most popular form of electronic Communication. In fact, the mobile phone has turned from a technological. In modern information and communication age mobile applications is one of the most concerned and rapidly develop .This paper explores the mobile application of education and research and also presents some use of mobile application on education perspective.
Key Word – Mobile Apps, Mobile Technology, Education and Research
1. Introduction
. The whole world is accepting and adopting the ways towards the advancement of technology. The youth is playing a vital role in this rapid pace. The mobile phone had been in existence for about a decade before young people really adopted this technology. More than just the latest electronic gadget, mobile phone has become integral parts of our education and personal lives.Global advances in mobile technology, smart phones have become a regular personal electronic device in daily life. The mobile devices and their supporting software applications promise of on-the-go information-seeking convenience are now backed by more robust industry infrastructure, sophisticated built input devices, and hundreds of thousands of downloadable applications.
2. Mobile Application Definition Overview
According to Techopedia A mobile application, most commonly referred to as an app, is a type of application software designed to run on a mobile device, such as a Smartphone or tablet computer
Mobile applications are consist of software/set of program that runs on a mobile device the vice and perform certain tasks for the user. Mobile application is a new and fast developing Segment of the global Information and Communication Technology. Mobile application is easy, user friendly, inexpensive, downloadable and run able in most of the mobile phone including inexpensive and entry level phone. The mobile application has wide uses for its vast functioning area like calling, messaging, browsing, chatting, social network communication, audio, video, game etc In large number of mobile application some are pre-installed in phone and others user can download from internet and install it in mobile phone. This large number of mobile application market served by increasing no of mobile application developer, publishers and providers. From the technical point of view the different mobile applications are run able in different managed platforms like iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Symbian, Etc
3.CLASSIFICATION OF MOBILE APPLICATIONS
The popularity of mobile devices and development tools provided by the manufacturers of mobile operating systems or development environments professional producers allowed the creation of smart phones apps able to send and receive information to / from a data server resulting in portable solutions for a wide range of applications such as portable test systems, the monitoring and/or control, or portable data acquisition systems.
Mobile applications can be structured according to several criteria, such as where the fields that can be used:
Ø General Information Applications that are used by users for information in various fields and can be for example weather applications;
Ø Network communication applications are applications that users communicate with other users through social networks or similarapplications, such as Skype, Viber etc.;
Ø Entertainment applications that users access different games or readnewspapers;
Ø Economic applications where users can make payments online, usinge-commerce;
Ø Applications with personal accounts that can be used only by logging.
Table no.1. The selected mobile applications for Education initiative
S.NO / Categories / Product Type / Examples1 / Books & Reference / Paid / Dictionary.com Premium, Dictionary - M-W Premium and etc
Free / Oxford Dictionary of English, Google Play Books and etc
2 / Communication / Message / What’s app, Skype, Messenger and etc
Mail / Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail and etc
Social Networking / Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and etc
Web Browser / Firefox , Chrome , Opera and etc
3 / News and Magazine / Paid / Pocket Casts, Press (RSS Reader) and etc
Free / Dailyhunt, News Point and etc
4 / Learn to Code / Free / Learn C++, Programming Hup, Learn Java and etc
5 / Study Aids & Prep / Free / GK Current Affair , Pocket GRE Math,GMAT Math Flashcards and etc
6 / New Language / Free / Learn English Conversation,3350+ English Grammar Practice and etc
7 / Classroom Tools / Free / Study Tips, Google Classroom , Student Agenda and etc
8 / Libraries & Demo / Free / LIVE MAPS Guide , GPS Navigation Satellite EazyView Library sndetc
9 / Productivity tools / Free / Word, Excel , Outlook , Notes and etc
10 / Feed Your Brain / Free / TED,Elevate - Brain Training,Lumosity - Brain Training and etc
Table no.2. The selected mobile applications for research initiative
S.No / Apps / Developer / Source1 / Research Methodology / Al-Ikhlas Development / Google Play
2 / Research Highlights / Elsevier Inc / Google Play
3 / Scholar Droid / DiodeDroid / Google Play
4 / Writing Thesis / ToscanyTech / Google Play
5 / Instant Research Report / InstaResearchReport / Google Play
6 / SpringerLink / Springer Productivity / Google Play
7 / Dissertation Help / Right Click Solutions / Google Play
8 / Plagiarism Checker / Plagiarisma.Net / Google Play
9 / How To Write a Thesis / Venture Technology Ltd / Google Play
10 / Thesis Title Suggestor / TrinmarBoado / Google Play
11 / Dissertation analysis / Dr. Devang / Google Play
12 / Questia Research / Questia / Google Play
13 / Research paper title generator / GrigoriFursin / Google Play
14 / Research Pad / Newgen North America, Inc. / Google Play
15 / gScholar / Promevo Developers / Google Play
4. Conclusion
In this fast moving world mobile phones and usage is an unavoidable part of life Each and every day the technology is updating. Now we have the world is in our finger tips . The modern mobile applications are more capable and more usable for the user. And the global impacts of mobile applications are going high.
In this paper we have tried to explain the so many things about mobile application for education and research with some data from modern market. And we think this paper will help to other for further study and education Perspective in the mobile applications area.
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