Ubiquitous Wikipedia on Handheld Device for Mobile Learning

Author

Wu, Shih-Hung ; Li, Min-Xiang ; Yang, Ping-Che ; Ku, Tsun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Chaoyang Univ. of Technol., Wufong Township, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

12-16 April 2010

Firstpage

228

Lastpage

230

Abstract

The hand-held systems and the wireless Internet access are widely available in recent years. However, the mobile learning with web content is still inconvenient. For example, the information has not well organized and it is uneasy to surf on the small screen of handheld device. We propose a mobile system based on the content of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a free content resource and has abundant contents of text and pictures. We use the Wikipedia wrapper that we developed before, to develop the mobile-learning interface of cross-language and cross-platform applications. Our system can present the content of Wikipedia on the small screens of PDA, and can be use on mobile learning. A teaching scenario of mobile learning during a museum visiting is discussed in this paper.

Keywords

Internet; Web sites; mobile computing; notebook computers; PDA; handheld device; mobile learning; ubiquitous Wikipedia; wireless Internet access; Cellular phones; Computer science education; Educational technology; Electronic mail; Handheld computers; Internet; Mobile computing; Personal digital assistants; Systems engineering education; Wikipedia; Hand-held device; Mobile learning; Ubiquitous learning; Wikipedia; Wikipedia wrapper;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE), 2010 6th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3992-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6428-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WMUTE.2010.37

Filename

5476581