Design and Assessment of Using Smartphone Application in the Classroom to Improve Students' Learning

Teachers are always frustrated with students and their use of cell phones during classroom. Texting, tweeting, and snap chatting during in class are an incredible distraction, resulting in a difficult teaching environment. In this paper, we pro-pose an innovative approach to encourage students to use effectively their smartphone in classroom. The main idea behind this is to develop an easy and friendly application related to the course that may be accompanied by the used textbook. The proposed application can be adapted easily to any textbook, where no coding is required.

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