Effectiveness of the mobile learning in the field of Agriculture Extension

Abstract

Sri Lanka is a country which has got an opulent history in agriculture and it still performs large portion in the national economy. But dissemination of agricultural knowledge among the agricultural stakeholder is still a problem. Currently mobile learning is opening new dimension of learning and it enriches with any time anywhere facility. So it is worthy to apply mobile learning to the Agriculture, but agricultural stakeholders are having their own inherited characteristics, it is required to conduct detail study. This study is based on experimental research methodology. Initial phase of this research found usability, teachers‟ course management skills, learners learning style, course personalization, content personalization, activity based assessment, geo localized knowledge, interactive content, teacher student communication, collaboration of peers and expert support as key factors for the success mobile learning in Agriculture. Then Android and Restful web services based prototype was developed and perception based assessments were conducted to test them. Finally this research proposed an effective model which provides above mentioned features.