Introducing m-learning in the classroom: a proposal for diffraction and image processing training

Maria L Calvo
Department of Optics, Faculty of Physical Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Dedicated to Prof Maria J Yzuel

We present results obtained with teaching and learning technique, the so called m-Learning (or mobile-Learning). This is a proposal with the aim to introduce an easy procedure to teach how to treat acquired images digitally, and to be detected and analyzed by undergraduate students, of the branch of physics and optics. The results indicated that m-learning could be compatible with diffraction phenomena training in the classroom. © Anita Publications. All rights reserved.
Keywords: m-learning, Diffraction, Fresnel and Fraunhofer approximation, Image processing.

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