Adrian Visoiu

Validation of a multi-criteria model used to evaluate M-Learning applications quality

In education and other fields, quality is a concept that characterizes the output. Because the educational process affects people, in this field, quality is more important than in any other economic or industrial process. The way educational processes have been conducted has been evolving by implementing new techniques and methods, concepts from other fields, like psychology, and in the last decades, technology. The rapid evolution of mobile technologies and devices, and also its impact on daily activities of young people, has been seen as a new way to deliver knowledge and to assist the educational process. Because the quality of the educational process depends also on the quality of methods used to deliver knowledge, it is important to evaluate the quality of M-Learning applications. The paper continues previous presented work by defining a validation model for a proposed multi-criteria quality model used to evaluate M-Learning applications. The paper describes the proposed quality model and a validation process that is used to evaluate the representativeness of results. Because these results measure the quality of the analyzed M-Learning applications, it is important to test the model.