This paper uses the radio frequency identification (RFID) to construct a smart ubiquitous learning environment. In the ubiquitous computing environment, learners can get the right learning contents to achieve self-learning at the right place and the right time through non-contact RFID identification. The learning system is composed of three layers, the portable learning object, the mobile device, and the system modules for learning management and manipulation. A total of twenty-eight students recruited from fifth grade elementary school are participating in the quasi-experimental study. After three weeks of investigated subject learning, the results showed that the average scores of attitude for the experimental group are higher than the control one. There was statistical difference for learning attitude between them.
{"title":"Using the RFIDs to Construct the Ubiquitous Self-Learning Environment for Understanding the Plants in the Schoolyard","authors":"Jenq-Muh Hsu, Yen-Shou Lai, Pao-Ta Yu","doi":"10.1109/WMUTE.2008.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMUTE.2008.25","url":null,"abstract":"This paper uses the radio frequency identification (RFID) to construct a smart ubiquitous learning environment. In the ubiquitous computing environment, learners can get the right learning contents to achieve self-learning at the right place and the right time through non-contact RFID identification. The learning system is composed of three layers, the portable learning object, the mobile device, and the system modules for learning management and manipulation. A total of twenty-eight students recruited from fifth grade elementary school are participating in the quasi-experimental study. After three weeks of investigated subject learning, the results showed that the average scores of attitude for the experimental group are higher than the control one. There was statistical difference for learning attitude between them.","PeriodicalId":398579,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education (wmute 2008)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123095452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yoshiko Goda, Y. Kogure, Yukinari Shimoyama, M. Kimura, H. Obari
This study reports the actual situations of mobile phone market for mobile learning at universities in Japan. About 700 undergraduate students in Tokyo area participated into the survey research and the researcher-developed questionnaire was utilized to collect the data. The results of descriptive analyses are reported focusing on distribution rate of mobile phones, daily usage of mobile phones, preferable mobile phone services to investigate possibilities of mobile phone use for learning. Comparisons of the results with that of last year show the tremendous increase of students' subscription of the flat rate for the unlimited use service of networking packets. This implies that infrastructure for mobile learning environments has been established at universities in Japan.
{"title":"Survey Research on Mobile Phone Market for Mobile-Learning in Japan","authors":"Yoshiko Goda, Y. Kogure, Yukinari Shimoyama, M. Kimura, H. Obari","doi":"10.1109/WMUTE.2008.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMUTE.2008.43","url":null,"abstract":"This study reports the actual situations of mobile phone market for mobile learning at universities in Japan. About 700 undergraduate students in Tokyo area participated into the survey research and the researcher-developed questionnaire was utilized to collect the data. The results of descriptive analyses are reported focusing on distribution rate of mobile phones, daily usage of mobile phones, preferable mobile phone services to investigate possibilities of mobile phone use for learning. Comparisons of the results with that of last year show the tremendous increase of students' subscription of the flat rate for the unlimited use service of networking packets. This implies that infrastructure for mobile learning environments has been established at universities in Japan.","PeriodicalId":398579,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education (wmute 2008)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122043948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
With the fast development of wireless communication and sensor technologies, ubiquitous learning has become a promising learning paradigm. In context-aware ubiquitous learning environments, it is desirable that learning content is retrieved according to environmental contexts, such as learners' location. However, traditional information retrieval schemes are not designed for content retrieval in ubiquitous learning environments. Recently, folksonomies have emerged as a successful kind of applications for categorizing web resources in a collaborative manner. This paper focuses on the index creation problem for location-aware learning content retrieval. First, we propose a bottom-up approach to constructing the index according to the similarity between tags, which considers metadata and structural information of the teaching materials annotated by the tags. Then, a maintenance mechanism is designed to efficiently update the index. The index creation method has been implemented, and a synthetic learning object repository has been built to evaluate the proposed approach. Experimental results show that this method can increase precision of retrieval. In addition, impacts of different similarity functions on precision are discussed.
{"title":"Folksonomy-Based Indexing for Location-Aware Retrieval of Learning Contents","authors":"Wen-Chung Shih, S. Tseng","doi":"10.1109/WMUTE.2008.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMUTE.2008.11","url":null,"abstract":"With the fast development of wireless communication and sensor technologies, ubiquitous learning has become a promising learning paradigm. In context-aware ubiquitous learning environments, it is desirable that learning content is retrieved according to environmental contexts, such as learners' location. However, traditional information retrieval schemes are not designed for content retrieval in ubiquitous learning environments. Recently, folksonomies have emerged as a successful kind of applications for categorizing web resources in a collaborative manner. This paper focuses on the index creation problem for location-aware learning content retrieval. First, we propose a bottom-up approach to constructing the index according to the similarity between tags, which considers metadata and structural information of the teaching materials annotated by the tags. Then, a maintenance mechanism is designed to efficiently update the index. The index creation method has been implemented, and a synthetic learning object repository has been built to evaluate the proposed approach. Experimental results show that this method can increase precision of retrieval. In addition, impacts of different similarity functions on precision are discussed.","PeriodicalId":398579,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education (wmute 2008)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125744616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Students are not always sitting at their desk but are also out in the world. In a university course teaching ethnography and design students were out in the field making observations and collecting data. We gave them access to a wiki, which they used to upload field notes and material as a support for collaboration. In this paper we present three tools we built and deployed to aid the students when in field and when collaborating. The first is a mobile tool used to gather data: a program running on the students' mobile phones let them take photos, record video and audio, and write simple text notes, which are automatically uploaded to the wiki. The second is an awareness tool that enables the students to quickly see what the others have done in the wiki. The third is a novel browser for the uploaded data, which relates objects by both time and location. We also talk about the experience from having students using the tools live during the course.
{"title":"Tools for Students Doing Mobile Fieldwork","authors":"Mattias Rost, L. Holmquist","doi":"10.1109/WMUTE.2008.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMUTE.2008.14","url":null,"abstract":"Students are not always sitting at their desk but are also out in the world. In a university course teaching ethnography and design students were out in the field making observations and collecting data. We gave them access to a wiki, which they used to upload field notes and material as a support for collaboration. In this paper we present three tools we built and deployed to aid the students when in field and when collaborating. The first is a mobile tool used to gather data: a program running on the students' mobile phones let them take photos, record video and audio, and write simple text notes, which are automatically uploaded to the wiki. The second is an awareness tool that enables the students to quickly see what the others have done in the wiki. The third is a novel browser for the uploaded data, which relates objects by both time and location. We also talk about the experience from having students using the tools live during the course.","PeriodicalId":398579,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education (wmute 2008)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125675628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
One-to-one technology is getting more and more attention, and it will start to make changes to education. However, it is not easy to change the traditional classroom, most teachers don't want to alter their teaching habits, if we put computer into classroom but no appropriate pedagogy and subject matter accompanied, computers in classroom will lost their value. Here we apply self-paced learning as the pedagogy in one-to-one classroom, and develop a monitoring system to help teacher to handle the classroom. A preliminary study was proceeded to test the usability of the system.
{"title":"Teacher Monitoring System in One-to-One Self-Paced Learning Classroom","authors":"Oskar Y. M. Ku, Owen W. S. Huang, T. Chan","doi":"10.1109/WMUTE.2008.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMUTE.2008.32","url":null,"abstract":"One-to-one technology is getting more and more attention, and it will start to make changes to education. However, it is not easy to change the traditional classroom, most teachers don't want to alter their teaching habits, if we put computer into classroom but no appropriate pedagogy and subject matter accompanied, computers in classroom will lost their value. Here we apply self-paced learning as the pedagogy in one-to-one classroom, and develop a monitoring system to help teacher to handle the classroom. A preliminary study was proceeded to test the usability of the system.","PeriodicalId":398579,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education (wmute 2008)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124415118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Digital technology is an important factor for the development of modern education systems, especially the wireless communication technology and the sensor technology, which make the evolution of learning environments from Web-based learning to mobile learning or ubiquitous learning. In this paper, a context-aware ubiquitous learning environment which utilizes mobile devices, sensors and wireless networks to conduct situated learning. Moreover, a series of learning activities of a butterfly ecology unit of the natural science course for K-4th students has been developed and conducted in the learning environment, in which students are guided to observe real-world objects with personalized supports from the system. Some preliminary experimental results have shown the effectiveness of the novel approach.
{"title":"Conducting Situated Learning in a Context-Aware Ubiquitous Learning Environment","authors":"Ting-Ting Wu, Tzu-Chi Yang, Gwo-jen Hwang, Hui-Chun Chu","doi":"10.1109/WMUTE.2008.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMUTE.2008.9","url":null,"abstract":"Digital technology is an important factor for the development of modern education systems, especially the wireless communication technology and the sensor technology, which make the evolution of learning environments from Web-based learning to mobile learning or ubiquitous learning. In this paper, a context-aware ubiquitous learning environment which utilizes mobile devices, sensors and wireless networks to conduct situated learning. Moreover, a series of learning activities of a butterfly ecology unit of the natural science course for K-4th students has been developed and conducted in the learning environment, in which students are guided to observe real-world objects with personalized supports from the system. Some preliminary experimental results have shown the effectiveness of the novel approach.","PeriodicalId":398579,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education (wmute 2008)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116957133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The essence of "communicative mobile English learning mode" is to make full use of the ubiquitous language communicating environment created by mobile devices, and help students turn English learning activities into rich and colorful communicating activities. In this paper, a series of mobile device-based English communicating activities are designed, and corresponding practical research is conducted. By testing, questionnaire and interviews, we review the feasibility of the model and the effectiveness of mobile learning. Research has shown that this new learning model has positive effects in promoting primary school students' interest towards English learning, as well as their mastery of knowledge and their development of abilities. In order to meet the future development of mobile English learning, suggestions and advice are provided in this paper.
{"title":"Research on the Communicative Mobile English Learning Model","authors":"Jun Liu, Shengquan Yu, Min Ran","doi":"10.1109/WMUTE.2008.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMUTE.2008.26","url":null,"abstract":"The essence of \"communicative mobile English learning mode\" is to make full use of the ubiquitous language communicating environment created by mobile devices, and help students turn English learning activities into rich and colorful communicating activities. In this paper, a series of mobile device-based English communicating activities are designed, and corresponding practical research is conducted. By testing, questionnaire and interviews, we review the feasibility of the model and the effectiveness of mobile learning. Research has shown that this new learning model has positive effects in promoting primary school students' interest towards English learning, as well as their mastery of knowledge and their development of abilities. In order to meet the future development of mobile English learning, suggestions and advice are provided in this paper.","PeriodicalId":398579,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education (wmute 2008)","volume":"324 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115567646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper reports a case study on the trial use of a cognitive tool (CT) called the "graphical partitioning model (GPM)" for the learning of mathematical fractions in a mobile technology supported environment. The interactions between a dyad of Primary 5 students and the GPM were analyzed. The results show that the interactions between the students and the GPM have the potential to foster deep learning of subject knowledge and there is a possibility to integrate the mobile version CT with collaborative learning strategies such as reciprocal tutoring.
{"title":"Collaborative Learning in a Mobile Technology Supported Environment: A Case Study on Analyzing the Interactions","authors":"S. Kong","doi":"10.1109/WMUTE.2008.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMUTE.2008.39","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports a case study on the trial use of a cognitive tool (CT) called the \"graphical partitioning model (GPM)\" for the learning of mathematical fractions in a mobile technology supported environment. The interactions between a dyad of Primary 5 students and the GPM were analyzed. The results show that the interactions between the students and the GPM have the potential to foster deep learning of subject knowledge and there is a possibility to integrate the mobile version CT with collaborative learning strategies such as reciprocal tutoring.","PeriodicalId":398579,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education (wmute 2008)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114870370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Huanglingzi Liu, Ronghuai Huang, Jyri P. Salomaa, Ding Ma
This paper proposes a conceptual design framework for mobile learning (mLearning) mainly based on the reflection and action research results of Nokia Mobiledu project, which was launched in China and is targeted especially for learning English. The framework involves five stages: mLearning activity design, requirement and constraint analysis, mLearning scenario design, mLearning technology environment design and mobile learner support services design, in which mLearning activity design plays a key role in a systematic design procedure for mLearning experience.
{"title":"An Activity-Oriented Design Framework for Mobile Learning Experience","authors":"Huanglingzi Liu, Ronghuai Huang, Jyri P. Salomaa, Ding Ma","doi":"10.1109/WMUTE.2008.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMUTE.2008.30","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a conceptual design framework for mobile learning (mLearning) mainly based on the reflection and action research results of Nokia Mobiledu project, which was launched in China and is targeted especially for learning English. The framework involves five stages: mLearning activity design, requirement and constraint analysis, mLearning scenario design, mLearning technology environment design and mobile learner support services design, in which mLearning activity design plays a key role in a systematic design procedure for mLearning experience.","PeriodicalId":398579,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education (wmute 2008)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114996962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
With the rapid advancement of wireless and mobile technology, the scope of e-learning has extended to that of mobile and ubiquitous learning. Despite many unique advantages in learning support and wide adoption, its diffusion in higher education was rarely explored. This study took a SWOT analysis approach and surveyed factors that support and hinder the diffusion of m-learning in China and Taiwan areas. The result indicates that m-Learning has great opportunities as well as threats.
{"title":"A SWOT Analysis of m-Learning Diffusion in China and Taiwan","authors":"Wei-Mann Lee, Yung-Sheng Chang","doi":"10.1109/WMUTE.2008.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMUTE.2008.33","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid advancement of wireless and mobile technology, the scope of e-learning has extended to that of mobile and ubiquitous learning. Despite many unique advantages in learning support and wide adoption, its diffusion in higher education was rarely explored. This study took a SWOT analysis approach and surveyed factors that support and hinder the diffusion of m-learning in China and Taiwan areas. The result indicates that m-Learning has great opportunities as well as threats.","PeriodicalId":398579,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education (wmute 2008)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133435469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：