Milage learn+: Perspective of teachers

Abstract

The development of technology has contributed to enormous changes in society, in interactions and communications. These changes are also reflected in education. MILAGE LEARN+ is an application for mobile devices that has been developed at the University of Algarve with the support of the ERAMUS+ project with partners from Portugal, Spain, Germany and Cyprus, enabling students to access educational content in and outside the classroom. The App works as a support tool for students which provides them the opportunity to solve tasks autonomously. In order to stimulate and support the implementation of the various activities proposed, MILAGE+ LEARN+ App interface incorporates gamification features and segmenting different levels of activities. The app provides detailed videos with the solution of problems and self-assessment scheme and peer review. A questionnaire was addressed to all teachers trained to use the MILAGE LEARN+ platform. This questionnaire includes thirty-one questions, of which four are open-response and twenty-seven are closed-response. In this paper we present how teachers, use this learning platform in their classroom, how often, with what intention, identify application weaknesses and identify new features to be developed.