TY - GEN AU - Çavuş,Nadire TI - A Collaboratıve Mobıle Learnıng Envıronmental Educatıon System For Students SN - 978-1-4244-3329-2 AV - LB1028 PY - 2008/// CY - Ieee KW - Near East University Article KW - Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi Makale KW - Collaborative learning KW - Environmental education KW - environmental education system N2 - Mobile learning, a relatively new concept, has gathered momentum and attracted the interest of educators, researchers, and companies developing learning systems and instructional materials. A principal goal of this study was to develop a suitable system for environmental education via mobile technologies. Students sent text messages using the Short Message Service (SMS), and pictures using the Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) of mobile phones. A web-based environmental education system has been developed by the authors on a University's server, called the New Mobile Technologies and Environmental Education System (NMobTec-EnvEdu). The exploratory study investigated the results of integrating mobile technology with e-learning and traditional classroom environments; specifically, the use mobile telephones, data services (i.e., WAP, SMS, AIMS, e-mail), and messenger. By gathering information and exchanging pictures using mobile telephones, text messaging and transmitting pictures of local environmental blights, students' attitudes improved toward maintaining a clean environment, and they identified ways to prevent pollution UR - http://library.neu.edu.tr:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CIMCA.2008.199 ER -