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University Sms Result Dessimination
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Computers
with the power of the Internet have succeeded in aiding communication
among people. The telephone system, which is the main communication
system that was invented several years ago, has undergone a great
improvement, so much that today we have fixed wireless phones, mobile
phones, and the like. With the rapid development of mobile phones come
several services, like the Short Messaging Service (SMS) and Multimedia
Messaging Service (MMS), which are readily available and add to the
usefulness of mobile phones. SMS in particular is widely used in
communication and, more recently, has been leveraged to provide several
services like airline ticketing, banking services, and commercial
services such as share and sell where subscribers can easily share
and/or sell airtime. SMS is a mobile technology that allows for sending
and receiving text or even binary messages to and from a mobile phone.
The relative ease of use of SMS makes it possible for a user to learn
how to send SMS easily. More than 160 billion SMSs are exchanged each
month in European countries (Mavrakis, 2004), and according to Resource
Shelf (2006), 48.7 billion SMS messages were sent in the second half of
2005, which is up 50% from the six months before that. The major
advantage of SMS is its cost effectiveness and availability, as most
individuals own a phone.
In different parts of the world, several
service providers offer mobile services that include SMS. Most times the
cost attached to sending a SMS is relatively small, and most providers
do not charge for receiving SMS. Sometimes, service providers give users
a certain amount of free SMS per month, which allows customers send and
receive unlimited number of SMS messages. It is possible to acquire a
special dedicated line that uses a custom rate for messages sent to the
number; it is also possible to have a number as toll free, making it
free for users to send SMS to the number. All these contribute to what
makes SMS a really cost effective means of disseminating information.
Till
today, especially in the developing countries like Nigeria, there still
exists the problem of checking examination results as students throng
to notice boards in anxiety, although most universities, even those in
the less developed countries, now make examination results available on
their websites. The level of Internet availability in less developed
countries is still low and quite expensive. Even in the developed
countries, where most homes have Internet access, SMS is still a faster
and cheaper means of disseminating examination results as well as other
information. Pramsane and Sanjaya (2006) stated that universities could
provide educational services based on SMS, such as grade release,
enrollment information, university announcement, and internship
opportunity. An advantage SMS offers is that students can receive
valuable information on the fly without requesting it.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This paper reviews the use of mobile phones for delivering examination results via Short Messaging Service (SMS) in a university where student who have written examinations and are anxious to see their results need to get their grades in a convenient and accessible way, whether in the comfort of their homes, on the road, or while at work.At this time, a mobile phone is accessible to most students, and they take it almost everywhere with them. This technology can, therefore, be highly effective i ... Continue reading---
