This document discusses seamless learning and technologies that can support it. It notes that there are currently seams between formal and informal learning, across locations and time, and between personal and social learning. New technologies like mobile and ubiquitous sensors allow for learning that is context-aware, personalized, and crosses contexts. The document proposes that seamless learning analytics could help by supporting open content access, sensor data aggregation, adaptation to context and individuals, and flexible output displays to help make learning more seamless.

1. Seamless Learning
Technologies
prof. dr. marcus specht
Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies
Open Universiteit Nederland
marcus.specht@ou.nl
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2. #1 HUMAN LEARNING …

3. HUMANS STRUCTURE AND …
CONNECT EPISODES ...

4. LEARNING IS EMBEDDED …
… IN A CONTEXT ...

5. H U M A N S D O N O T A LW A Y S L I K E T O …
REFLECTION
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6. #1 HUMANS AND
TECHNOLOGIES …

7. Mobile, Seamless, Ubiquitous
Technology
Personalised and Context-Aware
Sensors, BigData, and Analytics
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enhanced
Learning
Awareness
Curiosity
Episodes
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Reflection

8. “The most profound technologies are those that
disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric
of everyday life until they are indistinguishable
from it.”
–MARC WEISER
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9. #2 THERE ARE SEAMS AND FLAWS
I N T O D AY ’ S L E A R N I N G S U P P O R T

10. SEAMS IN LEARNING SUPPORT
(WONG ET AL, 2009)
• (MSL1) Formal and informal learning;
• (MSL2) Personalized and social learning;
• (MSL3) Across time;
• (MSL4) Across locations;
• (MSL7) Combined use of multiple device types;
• …
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11. distributed synced data ...
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12. M U LT I - D E V I C E O U T P U T
personal and social views ...

13. embedded in real world …

14. real world mashups ...
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15. #5 SOME TECHNOLOGIES FOR
C O N T E X T- A W A R E ,
C R O S S - C O N T E X T,
PERSONALIZED,
AND FLEXIBLE OUTPUT

16. ARLearn Framework,VR and AR
http://code.google.com/p/arlearn/
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17. ARLearn, Mozilla Badges, Signage System
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21. SO …
• #1 There are seams between the different learning
contexts, location, time, social context, …
• #2 There are opportunities with new technologies that
are open, ubiquitous, context-aware, and
personalized.
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22. SO …
• #3 Seamless Learning Analytics should
support ubiquitous open content access,
sensor data aggregation, adaptation (to
context and person), and flexible
aggregation, visualization and output
indicators (ambient displays).

23. M.M. SPECHT
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