@inproceedings{ZbickNakeJansenetal.2014, author = {Janosch Zbick and Isabella Nake and Marc Jansen and Marcelo Milrad}, title = {mLearn4web: a web-based framework to design and deploy cross-platform mobile applications}, series = {Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia MUM ’14 (Melbourne, Australia, 2014)}, pages = {252 -- 255}, year = {2014}, abstract = {This paper presents a web-based framework that allows the creation and deployment of mobile learning activities. We present an authoring tool that allows not-technically skilled persons to design mobile learning tasks and deploy them as a web-based mobile application. Since the presented approach is based exclusively on web-technologies, the deployed mobile application can be executed via a mobile browser and therefore is platform independent. Despite previous research efforts carried out in this domain, few of the projects have addressed this course of actions from a purely web-based perspective. Through the latest development of web technologies, mobile applications have access to internal sensors like camera, microphone and GPS and therefore allow data collection within web-applications. In order to validate whether the proposed framework can be applied in educational settings, we conducted a pilot study with experienced teachers and present the results of these efforts in this paper.}, language = {en} }