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Empowering educators with Google's Android App Inventor: An online workshop in mobile app design
Author(s) -
Hsu YuChang,
Rice Kerry,
Dawley Lisa
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2011.01241.x
Subject(s) - library science , virginia tech , state (computer science) , engineering , computer science , algorithm
Mobile devices such as smartphones are vastly gaining popularity (Johnson, Levine, Smith, & Stone, 2010) due to their relatively strong computing capability built into small sizes, their Internet connectivity, and the availability of various types and easy-to-use mobile software applications (" mobile apps "). It is estimated that by 2015, 80% of people accessing the Internet will do it through cell phones (Johnson, Smith, Willis, Levine, & Haywood, 2011). Mobile technologies are now gaining increased attention and popularity across education sectors, which has led to innovation in mobile app design (Johnson et al., 2010).