Title:	MOBILE ATTENDANCE AND TIME MONITORING SYSTEM FOR M-LEARNING APPLICATIONS: DESIGN AND PILOT RESULTS
Author(s):	Jacek Lewandowski, Hisbel E. Arochena
ISBN:	978-972-8939-45-8
Editors:	Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2011
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	e-learning, supervisory control, attendance management, knowledge based system, wireless communication, networking client/server
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	3
Last Page:	10
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	This paper describes a Mobile Attendance Management System (MAMS) used to remotely collect, manage and process student’s attendance data during school activities. The system incorporates mobile phones, standard PC sets and Bluetooth ad-hoc networking. Taking advantage of the wide and spread use of mobile phones among students, it becomes a powerful tool to process and manage attendance data in a seamless way with benefits for all parties: teachers, administrative staff and students. Besides some legal requirements, precise attendance monitoring can target retention and gain better understanding of students’ expectations. The proposed system constitutes a tool to implement such strategies without increasing the workload of teaching staff. We piloted our system during classes with Computer Science and related courses students’ at the Faculty of Engineering and Computing, Coventry University. During these trials, comparisons between the effectiveness and reliability of the current manual register checking and MAMS solution were made. MAMS rapidly recognised the change in attendance, which was immediately reported to the lecturer on the screen, what comparing to the manual register is considerably faster and much more reliable specially if dealing with large classes.Immediately following the trial both staff and students debriefed on their experience and identified key benefits and flaws of the system. A summary of this survey is also presented.
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