TY - GEN
T1 - Design Principles for an Adult Literacy Mobile Learning Solution
AU - Palalas, Agnieszka
AU - Wark, Norine
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2017/10/30
Y1 - 2017/10/30
N2 - This is the second report on a Design-Based-Research project that aims to develop an adult literacy m-learning solution to help address persistently low adult literacy levels in Canada and across the globe. The device-agnostic solution and its key component, a mobile app, are designed to foster language and digital literacy skills needed to survive and flourish in work, school, and community contexts. This paper expands upon the previous report on design principles for developing a mobile adult literacy solution. It includes findings from literature reviews and feedback from literacy experts collected through interviews and focus groups, including participative evaluation of the app prototype. This new data provides further evidence that the three previously-identified design themes (Mobility, Learner-determined, and Context) and corresponding principles are critical to the design of a mobile adult literacy solution. Findings indicate that two Learner-determined sub-themes, overcoming emotional and motivational barriers, are also critical to a successful learning process for adult literacy learners.
AB - This is the second report on a Design-Based-Research project that aims to develop an adult literacy m-learning solution to help address persistently low adult literacy levels in Canada and across the globe. The device-agnostic solution and its key component, a mobile app, are designed to foster language and digital literacy skills needed to survive and flourish in work, school, and community contexts. This paper expands upon the previous report on design principles for developing a mobile adult literacy solution. It includes findings from literature reviews and feedback from literacy experts collected through interviews and focus groups, including participative evaluation of the app prototype. This new data provides further evidence that the three previously-identified design themes (Mobility, Learner-determined, and Context) and corresponding principles are critical to the design of a mobile adult literacy solution. Findings indicate that two Learner-determined sub-themes, overcoming emotional and motivational barriers, are also critical to a successful learning process for adult literacy learners.
KW - Adult literacy
KW - Context
KW - Design guidelines
KW - Design principles
KW - Emotional barriers
KW - Learner-determined
KW - Mobile literacy learning solution
KW - Mobility
KW - Motivation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85041449173&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3136907.3136934
DO - 10.1145/3136907.3136934
M3 - Published Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85041449173
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings - 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, mLearn 2017
A2 - Souleles, Nicos
A2 - Papadopoulos, George
A2 - Loizides, Fernando
T2 - 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, mLearn 2017
Y2 - 30 October 2017 through 1 November 2017
ER -