M LEARNING

1. Mobile Learning
Presented by
ALIN MARY
NATURAL SCIENCE
MANNAM FOUNDATION CENTRE FOR
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

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WELCOME

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Presentation Plan
• Mobile Learning Challenge
• Mobile Learning at Workplace
• Research Goal
• Research Questions
• Background – PML & WS, PML & Context,
AT & Context
• Architecture
• Demo – Location Context
• Summary and Question for Discussion

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Mobile Learning Challenges
• Definition
- The provision of education and training on mobile devices: PDA, mobile phones and
smartphones (Keegan, Mobile Learning: a practical guide, 2006)
- Learning that take place while using mobile devices and services (Vavoula, A Study of Mobile
Learning Practices, MOBIlearn 2005)
• Technical challenges:
- Seamless integration of web and mobile access
- Web services appear feasible approach
• Need for creative scenarios and applications
- Informal and free context (Frohberg, 2006)
- Promising applications (Trifonova, 2003):
- access/retrieve knowledge at a certain moment directly linked to
the current user activities
- educational material collected/available on the field
- context is crucial for the learning experience.

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Mobile Learning at workplace
• Learning at workplace fits within the characteristics for
promising mobile learning applications
• Learning should be integrated with the work practices
• There are no systematic approaches how this could be
done
• Our Approach: Use activity theory to inform the design of
activity-based mobile learning

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Research Goal
• The main goal is to examine how
information from a mobile
environment can be taken into
account for supporting personalised
activity-based learning.

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Research Questions
• How to model mobile learning context
considering individual tasks, community
activities, and current environment?
• How to use context in a particular mobile
learning scenario in order to provide adaptation
to users?
• How to develop a flexible system architecture
for personalised activity-based learning?

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Architecture (1)
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Acquire information
(in xml format)

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Demo – Location Context
- Simulation and Location Context
• Acquire Position
Longitude,Latitude (x,y)
by GPS
• Map to Picture Image
• Send to Servers
xml
Web Services

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Architecture (2)
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Summary & Questions for Discussion
• Using Activity Theory to model the context
• Using Web Services provide seamless access web
content and adapt it to the device constraints
• How to model mobile learning context? – individual
tasks, current environment, community activity
• How to use context in a particular mobile learning
scenario for adaptation to users?
• Thank you!