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Title:
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AL ANDALUS PROJECT ON MOBILE LEARNING AND NFC VIRTUAL POSTERS FOR LITERACY |
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Author(s):
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Fadoua Hajji , Ahmed Ziad Belabyad , Thomas De Lazzari , Serge Miranda |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-77-5 |
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Editors:
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Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2009 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Literacy, NFC, m- Learning, mobile 2.0. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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226 |
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Last Page:
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229 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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This paper presents AL ANDALUS project with a major focus on its innovative m-learning platform functional
architecture. AL ANDALUS which stands for Advanced Learning Application and NFC Display for A Literacy
Ubiquitous System is a project based upon NFC (Near Field Communication) Virtual posters to fight illiteracy. Illiteracy
is a key world issue, and not just in developing countries where poverty is a denial of access to in-formation, with
severe long-term effects: almost 780 million people are considered illiterate with a majority of women1. Most of these
illiterate people already have or will soon have a cell phone in their hands opening the road to new mobile learning
systems with touch-based interfaces fitting NFC technology.
AL ANDALUS project is based upon a smart virtual NFC poster with short video-clip learning contents provided by
famous artists. The virtual poster displays alphabet letters and interacts with the cell phone using NFC touching
paradigm. The cell phone then may be seen, on one hand as a chalk of the future for both tutors and students, a
bookmark for exercises and difficulties outside schools, and on the other hand, as a tutor in the pocket keeping
customized learning track and enabling personalized video training. Via the NFC mobile phone, we touch the picture
displayed on the screen by the video projector in order to perform a selection of one or more entries (letters) of the poster.
By touching a letter using the cell phone, a course, related to the letter consisting of video clips lasting less than 30
seconds, is downloaded to the mobile or can be displayed directly onto the panel. Moreover a mobile 2.0 platform based
upon Bozza2 platform of the MBDS is being used between the tutor and the students and among the students to create a
ubiquitous continuous link; by touching the NFC virtual poster some dedicated video clips could be generated by the cell
phone by MMS to enrich the course in real time and adapt the course dynamically to the audience. |
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