International Journal of Computer Science Issues

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Mobile learning as an intersection of Mobile Computing and E-Learning providing resources that can be accessed in anywhere has capability in an excellent searching system, rich interaction and full support towards an effective learning and performance-based assessment. In addition, it has a characteristic of not being dependent on time and space. Education requires an alternative learning model typically not dependent on time and space. It is also expected that the alternative model can facilitate knowledge sharing and knowledge visualization in order to make knowledge more interesting and easy to understand. The application of mobile learning can be used through the android operating system that is chosen in consideration to that android has been dominating the Smartphone market and is an open-source operating system that is easily developed. In this case, the versions of android supporting this application are Version 2.2 to Version 4.2. To ease the users to access M-learning, jQuery mobile framework is applied as its display, in addition to its attractive features, is able to adjust the screen from mobile equipment. This application will be implemented in three types of user: admin that will use the web-based application on the desktop and lecturers and college students that will use android mobile tool-based application. In this case, the function that will be given is by processing the materials that will be uploaded by lecturers and can be downloaded by the college students, task and quizzes given by the lecturers to the college students and the function to show the score from the college students.