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Mobile phones are primarily designed for enabling communication over wireless network infrastructure like cellular network through audio calling. Nowadays, they are getting smarter and becoming the center of entertainments by running different apps. As the devices are very much portable to the day-to-day activities of the public, their usage can further be exploited in the education industry. In this study, hybridized architecture is proposed for higher education exploiting mobile learning scenario. This architecture is used to combine the strength of both the native and Web apps in order to make the mobile learning app on time through push notifications. Mobile apps developed in hybrid architecture are installable and can pull content from the Internet independent of browsers. Generally, by designing the whole system’s physical architecture, a prototype implementation was made in agile process model. Finally, the prototype was evaluated and validated to perform well for the core functionalities stipulated as usage scenarios.
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Mulatu, A., Anbessa, A., Misra, S., Adewumi, A., Damaševičius, R., Ahuja, R. (2018). Hybrid Mobile Learning Architecture for Higher Education. In: Chakraverty, S., Goel, A., Misra, S. (eds) Towards Extensible and Adaptable Methods in Computing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2348-5_28
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