Work-in-Progress: Development of a Framework for Incorporating Usability Aspects with Digital Didactical Design for Mobile/Tablet Based Learning in Pre-primary Education

Mobile mediated learning is becoming more popular among small children with the advancement of technology. In early days learning process was completely teacher centric. Once the technology is coupled with learning processes, enhanced teaching-learning activities based on mobile or tablet can be presented even outside the classroom. This helps small children to get hands-on experience on various educational activities in learner-centered educational environment which allow them to become active learners. Hence, development of mobile learning systems which will be able to use both within the classroom environment as well as outside that would be more useful for deeper learning. Due to existing research, usability issues take prominence in today’s mobile mediated applications that targeting small children. Small children put more effort on interactions rather than achieving intended objectives of the application. This leads to a reduction of performance of those applications. Hence, the proposed research aims to develop a framework which incorporates usability aspects with digital didactical design for mobile mediated learning in pre-primary education. The framework would provide a set of guidelines for incorporating usability aspects with digital didactical design in mobile based learning applications.