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Publication Date: 2006-Jan
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Context Aware Ubiquitous Learning Environments for Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Learning
Yang, Stephen J. H.
Educational Technology & Society, v9 n1 p188-201 Jan 2006
A ubiquitous learning environment provides an interoperable, pervasive, and seamless learning architecture to connect, integrate, and share three major dimensions of learning resources: learning collaborators, learning contents, and learning services. Ubiquitous learning is characterized by providing intuitive ways for identifying right learning collaborators, right learning contents and right learning services in the right place at the right time. Our context aware ubiquitous learning environment consists of three systems, namely peer-to-peer content access and adaptation system, personalized annotation management system, and multimedia real-time group discussion system. Since the effectiveness and efficiency of ubiquitous learning heavily relies on learners' surrounding context, in this paper, we will address a context model and context acquisition mechanism for collecting contextual information at run time. We have built a context aware ubiquitous learning environment and in this paper we will address how this newly designed environment can fully support the needs of peer-to-peer collaborative learning. (Contains 12 figures and 1 table.)
Descriptors: Management Systems, Group Discussion, Educational Environment, Models, Virtual Classrooms, Cooperative Learning, Client Server Architecture, Semantics, Computer Software, Computer Peripherals, Handheld Devices, Synchronous Communication, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Networks, Peer Relationship
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