Development of a Lever Learning Webapp for an HTML5-Based Cross-Platform
With the advent of smart devices, educational apps for smart learning are actively being developed, but the existing native apps run only on specific devices and are not compatible with other devices. Webapp, a new app development method, which is written
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Abstract With the advent of smart devices, educational apps for smart learning are actively being developed, but the existing native apps run only on specific devices and are not compatible with other devices. Webapp, a new app development method, which is written using HTML5, supports a cross-platform. In this study, a Webapp for learning about levers as mentioned in elementary school textbooks was developed using HTML5. The proposed Webapp was tested by a group of incumbent expert elementary school teachers, revealing that the proposed contents and Webapp offer high educational value. Keywords HTML5
Webapp Cross-platform Smart learning
1 Introduction Amid the new information technologies that are being developed at alarming speeds, diverse inventions that encompass new information technologies are being developed. Of them, representative inventions are smart devices such as smartphones and smart pads, the advent and spread of which have enormously changed modern-day people’s lifestyles. This is true for education, for which smart devices have provided new paradigms in terms of methods. Smart-learning has the same root as e-learning, m-learning, and u-learning, but uses smart devices, which T. Kim B. Kim J. Kim (&) Department of Computer Education, Teachers College, Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea e-mail: [email protected] T. Kim e-mail: [email protected] B. Kim e-mail: [email protected]
J. J. (Jong Hyuk) Park et al. (eds.), Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 240, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6738-6_39, Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht(Outside the USA) 2013
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differentiates it from other learning methods and is drawing attention to it as a new education method. Current operating systems for smart devices are dominated by Apple’s IOS and Google’s Android. Large numbers of smart-device-driven apps are now hitting the market. IOS and Android are different operating systems, however, which require developers to make apps using these two platforms or give up on one OS-based app for the other. This inter-device incompatibility problem, if not resolved, will adversely affect digital textbook projects, app development, and other smart learning initiatives. Recently, the web standardization organization W3C proposed the nextgeneration web-standard advanced HTML5 based on the web standard and Web 2.0. HTML5 pursues web standards and can support cross-platforms. A Cross-platform refers to the capability of a computer program, operating system, computer language, programming language, computer software, etc. to operate on various kinds of computer platforms. HTML5, which is enabling the implementation of the cross-platform feature, is drawing attention as a new method of developing smart device apps. This study developed the lever learning Webapp that can support crossplatforms to eliminate inter-smart device incompatibility problems. It also investigated methods of implementing smart learning using HTML5.
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