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    This document presents DFAQ, a mobile learning tool that allows students to anonymously ask questions about lecture material via SMS. DFAQ aims to give shy students confidence to participate by maintaining anonymity. It is designed to be simple and accessible to most learners regardless of location. Key features include anonymity, collaboration, archiving questions, and using the questions to track student cognitive development over time.

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    This document presents DFAQ, a mobile learning tool that allows students to anonymously ask questions about lecture material via SMS. DFAQ aims to give shy students confidence to participate by maintaining anonymity. It is designed to be simple and accessible to most learners regardless of location. Key features include anonymity, collaboration, archiving questions, and using the questions to track student cognitive development over time.

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    DFAQ

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    Jerome Terpase Dooga
    This document presents DFAQ, a mobile learning tool that allows students to anonymously ask questions about lecture material via SMS. DFAQ aims to give shy students confidence to participate by maintaining anonymity. It is designed to be simple and accessible to most learners regardless of location. Key features include anonymity, collaboration, archiving questions, and using the questions to track student cognitive development over time.

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    DFAQ

    the Anywhere, Anytime, Mobile


    Learning Tool
    A Paper Presented at the 5th AICTTRA
    Conference, Jos, September 26-30, 2010

    By
    Jerome Terpase Dooga
    Department of English, University of Jos
    Asked a similar question?
    Higher education is principally text-based
    How long will it take for all of them to ask
    questions on just one lecture?
    Short Message Service (SMS)
    “Student questions are
    representations of the search

    ?
    for knowledge, and embodied
    in questions is implicit
    knowledge about levels of
    students’ current
    understanding. Accepting this
    argument, it follows that
    student levels of Inquiry
    understanding can be deduced
    from questions asked.”—
    Ng’ambi & Brown (2009)
    The DFAQ Home Page
    It’s anonymous, so Features of DFAQ
    gives shy or timid
    learners confidence

    It’s collaborative and


    archivable

    Can be used to track


    It’s simple and
    students cognitive
    accessible to majority
    development as they
    of learners where ever
    move up Bloom’s
    they are
    It exploits technology that is widely in use taxonomy

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