DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A NATIVE MOBILE MULTIMEDIA LEARNING APPLICATION FRAMEWORK ON ANDROID PLATFORM

📄 Project Abstract

Internet connectivity is one of the fundamental requirements for a successful mobile learning environment. However, within the context of Africa, availability and access, let alone cost, still pose a great challenge in higher education, especially in distance learning. Consequently, there arises a dire need for a native mobile learning application framework that would serve as an alternative to web-based learning environments in localized contexts such as Africa, where the problems of internet connectivity and bandwidth remain untackled. However, little body of knowledge exists on how such native application frameworks, which leverage the mobile device's underlying hardware resources and rich user interfaces (UIs) in offering a heightened learning user experience (UX), can be designed and implemented. As a result, this thesis sets out to bridge this gap by proposing a Native Mobile Multimedia Learning Application (NMMLA) Framework, implemented on the Android platform by using a systema...