Educational Platform based on Smartphone to Increase Students’ Interaction in Classroom

Abstract

Current smartphones meet all the criteria for university application. This technology opens the door to develop new techniques to enhance teaching methods. In addition, it presents an interest solution for students’ guidance and helping. Thus, the idea of this proposal aims to provide a platform around smart phone based on android to help student and teachers managing their courses. It is based on the Internet of Things to increase digital interaction and improve the teaching process while delivering traditional lectures. The system encompasses three main parts. The first step is carried out for guiding students to find their classroom and teacher’s desk. The second part was developed to help teachers to monitor the attendance of students. The third part is dedicated for improving e-learning in classroom by managing the educational process with the purpose of providing the adequate platform for data management. The platform, therefore, succeeded to provide the adequate solution to prevent the misuse of smart phone in classroom, and to enhance the learning methods using smart technologies