Improving the Project Risk Competence using M-Learning: A Case of Bachelors in Technical Fields

Improving the Project Risk Competence using M-Learning: A Case of Bachelors in Technical Fields

innovation activity assessment

mobile learning

project risk

risk assessment

technical specialist.

Mobile technology is a popular tool used to improve education efficiency. However, its impact on learners in risk assessment training is largely unknown. Projects are fraught with risks so individuals responsible for a project need to possess strong skills to handle the risky circumstances successfully.  Unfortunately, candidates for a bachelor’s degree in technical fields in Russia have an insufficient risk competence. This study offers a five-unit program to solve this problem. The study involved 128 students recruited from the Noyabrsk Institute of Oil and Gas (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia). All participants were divided in three groups: two experimental and one control. During a semester, participants in the experimental group followed the proposed program in a mobile setting, while the control group was offered the standard curriculum. The results showed an improvement in the student outcomes: the test scores of the experimental groups were higher by 24.78% and 32.75% than that of the control group. Furthermore, mobile learners were found to perform better than classroom learners: their test score was higher by 3.5% to 8%.

Kozlov, Anatoly

Tamer, Olga

Bondarovskaya, Larisa

Lapteva, Svetlana

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 14 No. 21 (2020); pp. 107-117

1865-7923

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

2020-12-22

Copyright (c) 2020 Anatoly Kozlov, Olga Tamer, Larisa Bondarovskaya, Svetlana Lapteva

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