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Teaching Surrounded by Smart Phones

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Authors:
  1. Dinesh Kant Kumar

    1. Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Peterjohn Radcliffe

    1. Department of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Improves the classroom outcomes in the modern era
  • Explores how smartphones affect teaching activities
  • Discusses students’ smartphone behavior and learning outcomes

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. About Smartphones and Education

    • Dinesh Kant Kumar, Peterjohn Radcliffe
    Pages 1-6

  3. How and Why Students Use Smartphones

    • Dinesh Kant Kumar, Peterjohn Radcliffe
    Pages 7-26

  4. The Effect of Smartphones on Traditional Education

    • Dinesh Kant Kumar, Peterjohn Radcliffe
    Pages 27-37

  5. Using Smartphone to Enhance Education

    • Dinesh Kant Kumar, Peterjohn Radcliffe
    Pages 39-52

  6. Measuring the Effects

    • Dinesh Kant Kumar, Peterjohn Radcliffe
    Pages 53-56

  7. Case Studies

    • Dinesh Kant Kumar, Peterjohn Radcliffe
    Pages 57-77

  8. Successful Strategies

    • Dinesh Kant Kumar, Peterjohn Radcliffe
    Pages 79-83
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About this book

This book explores how smartphones affect teaching activities, students’ behavior, and learning outcomes. The Internet and smartphones are a very recent phenomenon and are evolving very rapidly, and new devices, software apps and methodologies that may upset previous understandings are emerging on a regular basis. Based on the latest research, this book shares various current perspectives and encourages continuing dialog to allow the education community to react in a timely manner to any new developments, and as such improve classroom outcomes.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Dinesh Kant Kumar

  • Department of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Peterjohn Radcliffe

About the authors

Prof Dinesh Kant Kumar, B.Tech from IIT Madras, and PhD from IIT Delhi, is a Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He has published over 400 papers, authored 5 books and is on a range of Australian and international committees for Biomedical Engineering. His passion is for affordable- diagnostics and making a difference for his students. His work has been cited over 5600 times and he has also had multiple successes with technology translation.  

Dr Peterjohn Radcliffe, B.Eng. from Melbourne University and PhD from RMIT, is a senior lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia.  He has been teaching since 1986 and maintains strong links with industry both with project work and consulting.  His passion is ensuring that RMIT graduates have both the professional and technical skills to be keenly sought after by industry.  His technical interests include networking, network security, IoT, embedded systems and mobile computing

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