Multiplatform E-Learning Systems and Technologies: Mobile Devices for Ubiquitous ICT-Based Education

Multiplatform E-Learning Systems and Technologies: Mobile Devices for Ubiquitous ICT-Based Education

Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 406

ISBN13: 9781605667034|ISBN10: 160566703X|EISBN13: 9781605667041|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616924447

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-703-4

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Multiplatform e-learning systems are emerging technologies that provide integrated learning content to various accessing devices.

Multiplatform E-Learning Systems and Technologies: Mobile Devices for Ubiquitous ICT-Based Education addresses technical challenges, design frameworks, and development experiences of the future that integrate multiple mobile devices into a single multiplatform e-learning system. With expert international contributions, this collection benefits researchers, academicians, and practitioners interested in this growing field.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Foreword

Preface

Chapters

Frameworks and Theories

Chapter 1

A Contextualised Multi-Platform Framework to Support Blended Learning Scenarios in Learning Networks (pages 1-19)

Tim de Jong, Alba Fuertes, Tally Schmeits, Marcus Specht

This chapter describes a multi-platform extension of learning networks. In addition to Web- and desktopbased access, the authors propose to provide mobile, contextualised learning content delivery, and creation. The extension to a...

Chapter 2

A Knowledge-Based Framework for E-Learning in Heterogeneous Pervasive Environments (pages 20-41)

Michele Ruta, Floriano Scioscia, Simona Colucci, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Tommaso Di Noia, Agnese Pinto

We propose a ubiquitous learning approach useful not only to acquire knowledge in the traditional educational meaning, but also to solve cross-environment everyday problems. By formalizing user request and profile through logic-based...

Chapter 3

Designing Effective Pedagogical Systems for Teaching and Learning with Mobile and Ubiquitous Devices (pages 42-56)

Wan Ng, Howard Nicholas, Seng Loke, Torab Torabi

The aim of this chapter is to explore issues in effective system design to bring about pedagogically sound learning with mobile devices, including the emerging generation of new devices. The authors review pedagogical models and...

Chapter 4

Text Messaging to Improve Instructor Immediacy and its Role in Multiplatform E-Learning Systems (pages 57-71)

Paul Hayes, Stephan Weibelzahl

Text messaging has been exploited for supporting learning in a variety of educational settings. However, evidence for its effectiveness and impact is limited. This chapter demonstrates how the use of text messaging can contribute...

Chapter 5

The Role of Multi-Agent Social Networking Systems in Ubiquitous Education: Enhancing Peer-Supported Reflective Learning (pages 72-88)

Jonathan Bishop

Knowledge it could be argued is constructed from the information actors pick up from the environments they are in. Assessing this knowledge can be problematic in ubiquitous e-learning systems, but a method of supporting the critical...

Design and Integration

Chapter 6

A Method for Generating Multiplatform User Interfaces for E-Learning Environments (pages 90-111)

Juan Manuel González Calleros, Josefina Guerrero García, Jaime Muñoz Arteaga, Jean Vanderdonckt, Francisco Javier Martínez Ruiz

In this paper the authors present a structured method for automatically generating User Interfaces for e-learning environments. The method starts with a definition of the learning scenario where the different goals, jobs...

Chapter 7

Cross Platform M-Learning for the Classroom of Tomorrow (pages 112-127)

Daniel C. Doolan, Tracey J. Mehigan, Sabin Tabirca, Ian Pitt

Mobile devices are becoming more and more commonplace across all walks of life from the workplace to leisure activities and even the classroom. Many schools shun the use of devices such as mobile phones in the classroom environment...

Chapter 8

Plastic Interfaces for Ubiquitous Learning (pages 128-146)

José Rouillard

This chapter presents research around pervasive and ubiquitous computing, particularly oriented in the field of human learning. We are studying several solutions to deliver content over a heterogeneous networks and devices....

Chapter 9

Co-Design and Co-Deployment Methodologies for Innovative m-Learning Systems (pages 147-163)

David Millard, Yvonne Howard, Lester Gilbert, Gary Wills

Building innovative m-learning systems can be challenging, because innovative technology is tied to innovative practice, and thus the design process needs to consider the social and professional context in which a technology is to be...

Chapter 10

Design and Implementation of Multiplatform Mobile-Learning Environment as an Extension of SCORM 2004 Specifications (pages 164-181)

Kiyoshi Nakabayashi

A learner-adaptive self-learning environment has been developed in which both mobile phones and personal computers can be used as client terminals. The learner-adaptive function has been implemented using SCORM 2004 specifications....

Chapter 11

Towards Mobile Learning Applications Integration with Learning Management Systems (pages 182-194)

Marc Alier Forment, María José Casany Guerrero, Jordi Piguillem Poch

ICT in education innovators are creating new kinds of learning applications using all sorts of new technologies available: Web 2.0, Mobile, Gaming platforms and even Virtual Worlds. Mobile learning applications (m-learning) take...

Innovative Tools

Chapter 12

Using Mobile and Pervasive Technologies to Engage Formal and Informal Learners in Scientific Debate (pages 196-214)

Dawn Woodgate, Danaë Stanton Fraser, Amanda Gower, Maxine Glancy, Andrew Gower, Alan Chamberlain, Teresa Dillon, David Crellin

In a climate of concern in the United Kingdom about a perceived loss of interest in science among schoolchildren and the general public, we consider the relationships that exist between science education and public engagement in...

Chapter 13

Tools for Students Doing Mobile Fieldwork (pages 215-228)

Mattias Rost, Lars Erik Holmquist

Students are not always sitting at their desk when learning new things – they are also out in the world. The authors present a set of tools they developed to support groups of students who are doing field studies. Initially, the...

Chapter 14

SMART: Stop-Motion Animation and Reviewing Tool (pages 229-242)

Peter Byrne, Brendan Tangney

Animation shares many of the educational advantages of digital video production. However, both activities can be time consuming, are non-trivial to implement as whole class activities and there are aspects of the process that are not...

Innovative Cases

Chapter 15

A Multiplatform E-learning System for Collaborative Learning: The Potential of Interactions for Learning Fraction Equivalence (pages 244-259)

Siu Cheung Kong

A multiplatform e-learning system called the “Graphical Partitioning Model (GPM)”, with the separate versions for desktop computers and mobile devices, was developed for learning knowledge of fraction equivalence. This chapter...

Chapter 16

Mobile Interactive Learning in Large Classes: Towards an Integrated Instructor-Centric and Peer-to-Peer Approach (pages 260-272)

Kin-Choong Yow, Boon-Chong Seet

This chapter aims at describing a new platform for mobile and interactive learning targeted as an effective communication medium between the professor and students during lectures. In this system, students and professors will be...

Chapter 17

The "Trigger" Experience: Text Messaging as an Aide Memoire to Alert Students in Mobile Usage of Teaching and Learning Resources (pages 273-291)

Joan Richardson, John Lenarcic

This case study chapter will outline the results of a 2006 pilot test into the use of Short Message Service (SMS) to augment the provision of student administrative services currently available through a university website. The pilot...

Chapter 18

Use of Mobile Technology at Montclair State University (pages 292-308)

Patricia Kahn, Edward Chapel

Educators strive to develop innovative teaching strategies to meet the expectations of digital natives that are accustomed to social networking environments. The Campus Connect project at Montclair State University, which began in...

Chapter 19

Contextual Learning and Memory Retention: The use of Near Field Communications, QR Codes, QBIC, and the Spacing Effect in Location Based Learning (pages 309-320)

David Metcalf, David Rogers

An important part of multiplatform or blended learning is designing learning environments that take full advantage of the relative strengths and weakness of the various platforms employed to meet learning objectives. The desktop has...

Chapter 20

Development of a Museum Exhibition System Combining Interactional and Transmissional Learning (pages 321-335)

Shinichi Hisamatsu

“Hands-on” exhibitions, which not only present objects for viewing but also stimulate learning by allowing visitors actually able to touch them, is gaining increasing popularity at museums. By actually handling an exhibited object...

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