Evgenia Georgieva

• Angel Kanchev University of Ruse

In recent years, university education is undergoing major changes regarding ways of teaching. It must meet the emerging challenges and to adapt to them. Increasingly, in educational institutions and their educational levels are offered distance courses or Web-based training aids. Having a wide range of new technologies help realize innovative train...

The paper examines an evaluation of mobile learning system named FLAGMAN developed in the University of Ruse, Bulgaria. The system supports foreign languages learning using mobile devices (Personal Digital Assistants, smart phones or wireless laptops). All learning materials and system interface are in seven languages–English, German, French, Spani...

The report examines the abilities to use HTML5 in the design and development of mobile learning. An overview of the advantages and disadvantages of such use is made. The reasons why HTML5 will ensure the development of third generation mobile learning are given. The challenges which the developers of mobile learning systems will meet during the use...

In this paper is presented web-portal for mobile learning, which is developed in the University of Ruse, Bulgaria. Among the typical characteristics for web-portal as a point of intersection for useful information on one place and users authentication, the Mobile Learning Web Portal includes also modules for mobile devices recognition, content adap...

The paper examines the implementation of mobile Flash based module designed to test the speed of reading text on the mobile device screen. This module will be a part of a system for human-computer interaction investigation on mobile devices. A classification of existing methods for visualization of textual information is made. The main characterist...

The paper examines the development of mobile and wireless communication technologies in the last five years. It shows how the main disadvantages of mobile devices are solved or will be solve. An analysis of the potentiality for multimedia mobile learning realisation is also included in the paper.

This paper examines the types of mobile user interface. A methodology for developing user interface for mobile learning applications is proposed. The requirements for mobile user interface are defined and a concrete approach for realisation is suggested. INTRODUCTION Nowadays mobile devices become more widespread and are increasingly used for many...

The paper presents an investigation of the Bulgarian and English text entry speed and accuracy in mobile devices. For this purpose specialised software was developed and used. A comparison with hand writing and text entry using a personal computer is made. The obtained results are compared with those of similar investigations. The appropriate concl...

The report examines the existing metrics for determination of users' text entry speed. The functional and ergonomic requirements for a mobile application that can perform such task are defined. The realization of a concrete mobile application (m-TESM) is described and appropriate conclusions are made.

This paper considers the usage of a methodology for mobile device characteristics recognition during the development of mobile learning system. The conducted investigation of a program module for such recognition and obtained results are also described. The implementation of the module in the system for mobile foreign language learning FLAGMAN and...

The mobile learning (m-Learning) is one of the most advanced directions in the education. In this paper a conceptual model of Mobile Learning System which is based on UML diagrams is discussed. The model is derived from the IMS Learning Design and includes additional user types, tools, activities and services needed for mobile learning. UML Use Cas...

This paper describes a methodology for mobile devices characteristics recognition. The proposed main stages are: analysis, selection, program realisation, implementation and evaluation. The basic activities for each stage are determined. The methods which can be used for mobile device recognition are examined. The proposed methodology is used succe...

With the progress of ICT the abilities for organizing of mobile learning increase more. At the present there exist mobile learning systems which differ from each other by their functional abilities. A well- founded selection of comparison criteria and comparison analysis of 12 mobile learning systems are presented in this paper. Appropriate conclus...

This paper addresses to the variety of methods and technologies, which the mobile learning offers. An analysis of existing e-Learning platforms in Bulgarian universities is made. The possibilities of building a mobile learning system in Bulgaria are analysed.

This paper describes the main aims and activities, planned in a project under the Leonardo Da Vinci European programme-Learn Foreign Language Anytime Anywhere by LinguaNet. It discusses the possibilities of the modern information and communication technologies for language learning by creating a smart virtual space as a distributed system (Virtual...

A prototype of WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) based mobile learning system (MLS) is described in this paper. The current usage of mobile devices and mobile Internet are analyzed. The existing Bulgarian WAP portals are examined. The choice of WAP as a mobile technology for the prototype development is argued. The architecture of a fully functio...

Mobile learning (m-Learning) is a next stage of the distance learning development. The wide accessibility to mobile devices and the possibility to learn independent of place and time make the mobile learning an important tool for lifelong learning. The focus of this paper is on the influence of the usage of e-Learning on the students' expectations...

This paper places mobile learning in the space of the existing learning methods. The three main groups of challenges - technological, development and pedagogical - in the transition from e-learning to m-learning are defined. The influence they make over the main participants in the m-learning process - developers, educators and students is also exa...

This paper presents a decision table based methodology to analyze trading models. There are many trading systems available but mostly do not work. Ninety percent of traders lose money including those using professionally developed systems. The same system ...

Mobile Learning is rather new, but rapidly growing research domain. This paper presents part of a study that we have performed to investigate the university students' readiness to utilize mobile learning. About 600 Italian and 200 Bulgarian students participated in an online questionnaire in June 2005. They were asked about the availability of devi...

The mobile education became more popular and accessible worldwide. Today there is a big variety of solutions for such systems. In this paper a general classification of existing mobile learning systems is made. A 3D visualisation of this classification according to three indicators of the usability is presented. It gives a possibility easy to take...

Nowadays ADL SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is one of the specifications, which find wider and wider application in the e-Learning systems. On the other hand the mobile learning is one of the forms of e-Learning but currently SCORM does not specify the way in which the teaching materials can be delivered and reproduced on mobile de...

This paper describes a multimedia educational course about C++ programming. The main purpose of this product is to support and increase the quality of education of students from specialities "Pedagogic of Mathematics and Informatics Education" and "Industrial Engineering" in the course "Programming and computers" by the use of interactive and attra...

Distance learning, electronic learning and mobile learning offer methods, which decrease the limitations of traditional education. This paper discusses the existing devices and technologies appropriate to realise mobile learning. Mobile learning as new stage of distance and e-learning is also examined.

An analysis about the preconditions for using mobile learning (m-Learning) at the University of Rousse is described in this paper. The authors made an investigation between more than 100 students from the university. The survey includes questions concerning: the Internet usage, personal computer, PDA or mobile phone possession. The students' view a...

Distance learning is the one of the modern forms of education. The use of multimedia imparts dynamics and innovation of distance learning process. Modern multimedia elements such as audio, video and animation in the computer-based courses extend abilities for more attractive and interactive foreign language learning. This paper presents the multime...

The paper reviews some of the applications of computers in English language teaching which include the use of the computer as a word processor and its role in computer assisted language testing (CALT). It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of CALT over traditional testing. The paper describes the types of evaluation used for the different a...

Mobile learning is a next stage of the distance learning development. The wide accessibility to mobile devices and the possibility to learn independent of place and time make the mobile learning an important tool for lifelong learning. The focus of this paper is on the influence of the usage of e-Learning on the students' expectations about m-Learn...

In this paper is described a design of an e-Learning content visualization module. The existing methods for mobile device recognition are examined. Content adaptation approaches – server-side, proxy-side and client-side are also considered. Conclusions for appropriate technologies which to be used are made.

The following presents the outcomes from the questionnaire given to Italian and Bulgarian university students and stuff in order to determine some parameters, like availability of devices; the ways of devices usage; attitude to technology; opinion about prices of hardware and telephone and internet services and etc. These parameters seem to be impo...