A study on the education program for specialized high schools on the development of app contents based authoring tool

Abstract

This thesis is on the research for the course that produces Mobile App. Contents using App. Authoring Tool and the object of this research is the introduction of regular education course at the specialized high schools. Research is performed using the method of questionnaire survey which is conducted two times. The 1st questionnaire survey was conducted for 136 teachers from 82 specialized high schools and the 2nd survey was conducted for 160 teachers from 71 specialized high schools. Scale for the questionnaire survey were divided into 5 stages. In order to derive the utility on the result of the survey, preliminary education for 8 hours in 1 day was provided to all participating teachers before they respond to two questionnaire surveys. Contents of the education was about the production of mobile app. contents using app. authoring tool. The result of the questionnaire surveys revealed that 87% of the respondents of the 1st survey and 93% of the respondents of the 2nd survey presented the feasibility for the application of the education which corresponds to "Very Satisfactory" and "Satisfactory", two upper ones of the five scales. The 1st survey and 2nd survey were conducted with six months interval and the result of the 2nd survey showed the increase by 6% over the 1st survey. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.