J. Trinder

Portable assessment: towards ubiquitous education

This paper reports on the progress of a project conducted at the University of Glasgow to investigate the benefits of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) as teaching, learning and formative assessment tools and the practicalities of deploying PDAs and assessing their use. Students from both electronics and electrical engineering degree courses and from summer schools were involved. Benefits included an increase in off-campus learning opportunities, in collaborative learning and in engagement with the course material.