Management and Technology in Knowledge, Service,
Tourism & Hospitality – Lumban Gaol, Mars & Saragih (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00133-6
Mobile educational apps for children: Towards development
of i-CARES framework
Farrah Dina Yusop & Rafiza Abd razak
Department of Curriculum and Instructional Technology, Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, Malaysia
ABSTRACT: Mobile devices have becoming a new phenomenon not only among adults but also children of
all ages. Children use these devices most frequently for entertainment purposes especially to playing games
easily downloaded via online mobile app distribution stores such as Google Play and Apple’s App Store, more
than for its educational purposes. Consequently parents ...