Criação de um guia para selacionar métodos de avaliação para tecnologias de software M-learning

Abstract

The key criterion for the growing search for mobile education applications is mobility, making teaching-learning possible anywhere, anytime and by anyone. In view of the fact that M-learning is, relatively, new and is in the process of being implemented, it is important to search for methods to evaluate the quality of this type of software. Thus, in this work, a guide is proposed to select a method that evaluates the quality of educational mobile applications. The guide was developed from literature research to obtain a set of methods that evaluate M-learning software technologies. During the research the characteristics, criteria and subcriteria of quality that a mobile application must contain were identified, and thus it was possible to characterize each method found. All this information has been inserted and organized in excel, allowing the creation of the guide through a dynamic table and several filters. An experiment was performed to ensure that the guide met the specifications. The results show that more than 80% of evaluators agree that the guide is useful, easy to use and that they intend to use the guide in the future. However, some difficulties in using the guide were observed, due to lack or little experience with the tool used for creating the guide, excel. This research strengthen the importance of choosing the appropriate method to evaluate an M-learning application