Personalized mobile learning for digital literacy enhancement of Thai youth

Digital literacy becomes critical nowadays for the digitalization of all countries worldwide. Thailand has been transforming into the digital society. To enter successfully into the digital community, there is the need of enhancing digital literacy for all Thai citizens especially the youths who have already blended their daily life with the internet. Like any literacies, digital literacy requires practicing. Therefore, it is necessary to design and development of training or learning course for anywhere and anytime learning. Moreover, it is challenging to provide the appropriate lesson for each person because they need the different level of digital literacy for their goal. This paper proposes the mobile learning for enhancing digital literacy of Thai youths. Through mobile application, the youth learners feel more comfortable and freedom for their learning. The preference and the performance of students are used for personalization support. The experiment is conducted with 100 primary school students in Chiang Rai province, Thailand. The comparison results of pre-test and post-test reveal that the proposed personalized mobile learning can enhance the learning efficiency of students significantly. At the same time, most of the students have satisfied with the personalization learning in the "satisfy" level.