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Design of a mobile-based learning management system for incorporating employment demands: Case context of an Australian University

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Mobile technologies have created enormous opportunities for improving information delivery and dissemination processes among individuals. While studies of the mobile-based technologies in health and businesses have been proliferated, research on mobile applications for education are still at its emergent stage, however, for developing user-centric support to enhance individual’s involvements in learning and teaching purposes. Moreover, formal methods of learning management systems (LMS) for supporting students and academics to achieve industry demands are still yet to be developed for higher education institutes. This study develops and evaluates an innovative mobile-based technology for enhancing current approaches of LMS by linking relevant industry into learning and teaching procedure in a case context of an Australian University. The solution artefact as a model can be viewed as an industry-enabled LMS that captures and processes data from students’ teaching materials, exercises and participation contents in order to develop assistive information which is directly related to the employers’ requirements. Design science method is adopted for designing and evaluating the solution artefact that meets the key requirements of the stakeholders. It is anticipated that the developed artefact would be applicable across Australian higher education sectors for enhancing industry uptake into improving pedagogy of learning.

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  1. Dalsgaard et al. (2009) defined that all LMS approaches are not similar in nature as they serve in different ways of learning management. However, collective design view behind any LMS is on how the e-learning provision is designed and managed in a form of integrated learning system. Different technologies are integrated in a single LMS for providing necessary supports to operate learning and teaching in organisations.

  2. Jepsen and Rodwell (2008) introduced the convergent interviewing as a data collection technique for determining the key issues within a population group rather than a full list of issues in an organization or barriers to change in a particular context of organization.

  3. For this study, ethical approval (HRE17–184) has been gained from the Victoria University’s Human Research Ethics Committee on 13/10/2017 to undertake in-depth interviews

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Singh, H., Miah, S.J. Design of a mobile-based learning management system for incorporating employment demands: Case context of an Australian University. Educ Inf Technol 24, 995–1014 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-018-9816-1

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