M-Learning in Promoting Green Building Awareness in Palestine

Most Palestinians have yet to have the urge to participate in green building practices. To enhance green building education in Palestine, we built a mobile application named “Let’s Go Green” to deliver awareness and incorporate green building technologies. In order to validate the mobile learning (m-learning) effect, we have conducted separate measurements by using ARCS motivation model and paper-based quiz among 80 engineering and architecture students in Hebron, Palestine. The students were split into two groups; group A (experimental; applied m-learning method) and group B (control; adopted conventional lecture note method). This study has three important findings (1) m-learning users found to have stronger learning motivation than those who used the conventional lecture note; (2) m-learning users generally exhibited better learning effectiveness than non-users; (3) the m-learning was found to be attractive to the students, implying that it can be an important content for educational and leisure for green building education. The findings demonstrated that the Let’s Go Green Application is an effective instructional material to improve students’ knowledge on green building. This application can be downloaded for both smartphones; Android, and iPhone. These functions have not been implemented yet, therefore this is the first attempt of such an approach.