Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) has introduced the short messaging service (SMS) in its learning methods for postgraduate programmes in its School of Distance Education.
The School’s pricipal researcher (Mobile Learning) Dr Issham Ismail said Masters or PhD-level students interested in conducting research on distance learning could obtain information and contact their lecturers using SMS.
“A mobile learning research team was created in 2007 when the Higher Education Ministry provided a grant to conduct research on SMS as a module in the system of distance learning,” he said.
He said, so far, 20 postgraduate students had begun learning and conducting research via SMS.
Issham said the ministry had allocated RM330,000 for the programme.
Following the success of the SMS programme, USM organised a two-day international e-learning conference recently.
The conference, with representatives from 19 countries, saw researchers and academicians presenting their research on the use of telecommunications in learning. — Bernama
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