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.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2011, ML 2011 |
Editors | Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánche, Pedro Isaías |
Place of Publication | Spain |
Publisher | IADIS |
Pages | 3-10 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789728939458 |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Event | IADIS International Conference on Mobile Learning 2011, ML 2011 - Avila, Spain Duration: 10 Mar 2011 → 12 Mar 2011 |
Conference
Conference | IADIS International Conference on Mobile Learning 2011, ML 2011 |
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Country/Territory | Spain |
City | Avila |
Period | 10/03/11 → 12/03/11 |
Keywords
- Attendance management
- e-learning
- Knowledge based system
- Networking client/server
- Supervisory control
- Wireless communication
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Science Applications
- Information Systems
- Software