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Education and Technology – it used to be two disjoint words in the past, but now, we can leverage on technology to complement the traditional education. With the emergence and revolution of technology, today’s mobile devices could possibly bring a whole new dimension to the education experience as it has become more prevalence in our society. This technology, in many cases, is already in the pocket of the students today. No more boring lessons, lectures or seminars. Field trips or excursions are what “whatsNex” will take learning to a new high, by providing a new “playground” that educators can introduce and fascinate the students, bringing a whole new experience to learning. “whatsNex”, is a mobile application designed for multi-mobile platform2 compatibility. It integrates the modern classroom into an interactive mobile application so as to provide the students with the accessibility and portability they required on their learning journeys.
Our team shares a common vision, which is to enrich the learning journey and learning experience for students, going beyond the classroom. Instead of allowing learning to take place in the physical classroom, our team brings the classroom to them, wherever they are. Moreover, being a team of SIS students, we strongly believe that technology is a tool that is under- utilized in the sector of the Education industry. Technology is a tool that we can use to our advantage and in this case, we are helping students to achieve self-learning by tapping on the existing educational potential through the usage of technology and the exponential increasing number of students owning a mobile device today.
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Sponsor/Client | Professor Thomas MENKHOFF Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources (Practice) Prof Menkhoff is a faculty member of Lee Kong Chian School of Business. He has been actively seeking innovative ideas to enhance the learning experience of SMU student. |
Client | Gabriel YEE Qi Ming Gabriel Yee is a SIS Year 4 student, assisting Professor Thomas Menkhoff in liaising with the project team. He provides and reviews the technical requirements of the project. |
Supervisor | Benjamin Gan |
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Chen Qinghe (Project Leader) |
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Ho Chuen Full (Lead Developer) |
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Lew Li Ming (Creative Director) |
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Ng Hui Lian (Project Coordinator) |
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Vivian Seet (Risk and Relation Manager) |
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Tao Kejia (Quality Assurance Manager) |
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a) Multi-Platform Mobile (Android, Blackberry, iOS and Window Mobile OS) Educational Application that will:
i. guide students along their field trip to different checkpoint
ii. generate questions at different checkpoint
iii. gather reflections of student
iv. provide an interactive chat function for communication
b) Administrative Web Portal for Administrator (or Professor) that will:
i. help to plan and execute the field trip
ii. help to monitor the process of the field trip
iii. generate summary and results of the field trip
The deliverables for this project are as follows:
a) Multi-Platform Mobile Educational Application and Administrative Web Portal
b) Detailed documentation of the project on the aspect of Project Management (e.g. Project Plan, Risk Management Plan and Minutes of Meeting and etc.)
c) Detailed documentation of the project on the aspect of Technical Documentation (e.g. Use Case, Sequence Diagram and etc.)
d) IS480 Requirements -Project Acceptance, Interim, Mid-Term and Final Presentation & Project Poster