Improving computer basis teaching through mobile communication and cloud computing technology

With the world coming into the information age, computer basis course has become the public basic course which must be set up in colleges and universities and the increasing popularization of computers makes the computer basis education in university facing with more and more higher request. That requires teachers to answer questions in time, but a teacher usually teaches hundreds of students. After class, teachers have no enough time to communicate with students. How to improve communication between students and teachers is being more important. The ubiquity of mobile phones provides a new communication platform for students and teachers. In order to strengthen communication between students and teachers, we design the computer-aided education platform based on mobile communication and cloud computing technology. In client, we develop the smartphone software based on the open source JavaME UI framework (kuix) and Jaber which is an open source instant message protocol. In order to help teacher use the system conveniently, we develop the web site based on Google App Engine. Through the communication platform, the students can communicate with their teacher at any convenient time. This helps teachers know the situation of teaching and student's knowledge level of the course. The teacher also can answer questions or send messages to students through this communication platform freely. In practice, through these technical means it narrows the gap between students and teachers and produces satisfactory results.