Instructional m-Learning System Design Based on Learners: MPrinceTool

M-Learning is an exciting art of using mobile technologies to enhance learning skills. Mobile phones, PDAs, Pocket PCs and the Internet can be joined together in order to engage and motivate learners, anytime anywhere. The society is entering a new era of m-Learning, which makes important to analyze and innovate the current educational tools. In addition Learner-Centered Design (LCD) is considered to be important especially when new applications are created, it is an evolving design approach for designing tools that supports learners trying to engage in and understand educative practices. To develop and apply the LCD approach throughout the whole life cycle of the system an Instructional System Design process (ISD) which is the science of creating an instructional educative environments and materials that will bring the learner from the state of not being able to accomplish certain tasks to the state of being able to accomplish them. This article proposes a new tool that aims to improve the deficiencies identified in the usual analysis. The proposed tool, called MPrinceTool, provides a new means to interact via mobile technology by using web services that facilitate learners to participate in educational activities and communication with working groups, synchronously, when the students can participate in class and communicate with the teacher and the other students, also they can realize exams and exercises which needs the teacher presence; or asynchronously, which allows students to feel free in realizing their educational activities out of school time.