Title: Adaptive context-aware pervasive and ubiquitous learning

Authors: Anastasios A. Economides

Addresses: Information Systems Department, University of Macedonia, 156 Egnatia Avenue, Thessaloniki, 54006, Greece

Abstract: In pervasive and ubiquitous learning, a learner should be able to freely perform an educational activity possibly cooperating and/or collaborating with others using multiple devices and networks as he moves in an environment. The educational activity should be able to be performed by various types of learners and to operate on various devices, networks and environments. Correspondingly, the devices and the networks should be able to support various types of learners and to operate various educational activities in any environment. In order to provide adaptive context-aware pervasive and ubiquitous learning, an adaptation engine senses the context and produces adapted educational activity and infrastructure. This paper defines the context to consist of the learner state, the educational activity state, the infrastructure state and the environment state. Furthermore, it comprehensively describes each one of the states.

Keywords: adaptation; adaptive learning; context awareness; educational activity; learner profiles; learner models; mobile learning; m-learning; personalised learning; pervasive learning; ubiquitous learning.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTEL.2009.024865

International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 2009 Vol.1 No.3, pp.169 - 192

Published online: 01 May 2009 *

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