Title :
The 5R Adaptive Learning Content Generation Platform for Mobile Learning
Author :
Ako-Nai, Frederick ; Tan, Qing ; Pivot, Frédérique C. ; Kinshuk
Author_Institution :
Athabasca Univ., Athabasca, AB, Canada
Abstract :
Ubiquitous mobile computing and the advances in wireless telecommunication networks have encouraged significant growth of mobile learning in recent years. Since mobile learning can take place at anytime and anywhere, there is an advantage to integrate the real world objects into learning contents. Mobile devices have characteristics that include location awareness and hardware diversity. Thus, there are needs and opportunities to provide mobile learners with adaptive learning experience. To implement adaptive mobile learning, it is essential that the learning contents are context sensitive to be retrieved through the adaptation mechanism built in the learning management system. In this paper, an adaptive learning content generation platform is presented. We adopted the 5R adaptation framework to provide the mobile learning system the capability of providing the right content to the right learner, through the right device, in the right location, and at the right time. We provide an example to demonstrate how to use the platform to create adaptive learning contents.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; information retrieval; mobile computing; smart phones; 5R adaptive learning content generation platform; adaptation mechanism; adaptive learning experience; adaptive mobile learning; context-sensitive learning content; hardware diversity; learning content retrieval; learning management system; location awareness; mobile devices; real world objects; smart phones; ubiquitous mobile computing; wireless telecommunication networks; Adaptive systems; Geography; Materials; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Ontologies; Adaptive learning; learning content creation; location-based learning; mobile learning; ubiquitous learning;
Conference_Titel :
Technology for Education (T4E), 2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hyderabad
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2173-0
DOI :
10.1109/T4E.2012.22