Title :
Experiments in Ubiquitous Computing for Communities of Practice Using Learning Resources
Author :
Bouzeghoub, Amel ; Caron, Pierre-André ; Kaddouci, Sarra ; Lecocq, Claire ; Pallec, Xavier Le ; Ritaine, François-Julien ; Rouillard, José
Author_Institution :
Telecom Sud Paris, Evry
Abstract :
We present in this paper the interest of ubiquitous computing for the so called contextualized forums. These forums allow communities of practice exchanging and sharing experiences or situations already lived by using learning documents to classify these exchanges. These forums contain a lot of information which contribute to improve classical training. We study here ubiquitous computing possibilities to use this type of forums in order to improve professional training to business process by helping the user to put his/her acquisition into practice. The developed application is being tested and works mainly on smartphones.
Keywords :
computer based training; continuing professional development; management education; social networking (online); ubiquitous computing; Web application; business process; communities of practice; contextualized forum; learning resource; professional training; smart phone; ubiquitous computing; Asynchronous communication; Context; Context-aware services; Global Positioning System; Mobile computing; Proposals; Smart phones; Telecommunications; Testing; Ubiquitous computing; context; elearning; forum; smartphone; ubiquitous;
Conference_Titel :
Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, 2008. NGMAST '08. The Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cardiff
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3333-9
DOI :
10.1109/NGMAST.2008.70