学術情報メディアセンターセミナー「Adaptivity and Personalization in Mobile Learning」

Mobile educational systems have started to emerge as potential ducational environments supporting life-long learning. However, these environments still suffer from various technological and access related problems in many parts of the world. For example, the access to course materials is slow; courseware does not adapt to individual students; the real time interaction between student and the environment is hard to achieve because of the connection unreliability and bandwidth limitations. There is also a lack of pedagogical infrastructure for mobile learning. This talk will discuss the research in mobile learning, with particular focus on adaptivity for individual learners. While adaptivity in desktop based environments has attracted much attention and sophistication in e-learning environments, mobile learning is still struggling with basic technological and pedagogical problems. But there is much evidence that suggests that mobile technology is going to provide a natural extension for e-learning in long run. With The exponential growth of wireless technology in recent years, increasing availability of high bandwidth network infrastructures, advances in mobile technologies and the popularity of handheld devices have opened up new accessibility opportunities for education. The true potential of e-learning as "anytime, anywhere" has finally begun to be realized, particularly for those with disabilities or those living in remote communities.

The talk will discuss various aspects of the research that aim to exploit the benefits of location, context, device and learner modelling, and combine them with mobile technology to achieve personalized delivery of multimedia-rich learning objects: anywhere and anytime; collaborative problem-solving in the context of learners' surroundings, authentic problem-solving through multiple forms of input; and appropriate use of these different media formats as part of problem-solving for rich learning experiences.
In particular, the dimensions of multiple input and synchronousad-hoc discussion based problem solving scenarios will be discussed in the context of a mobile learning project of northern oil field camps.