Title:	CONCEPTUALIZING UBIQUITOUS LEARNING THROUGH CONTEXT-AWARE WIRED AND WIRELESS WEB SERVICES
Author(s):	Raymond M. Kekwaletswe
ISBN:	978-972-8924-77-5
Editors:	Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2009
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Context aware, social presence, ubiquitous learning, web-based learning
Type:	Short Paper
First Page:	316
Last Page:	320
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	This paper is premised on the idea that learners are mobile. That is, learners traverse varied learning contexts; hence learning is not confined to particular spaces or time. To this point, learners should have ubiquitous access to learning resources and social support. However, in a contact university, academic support from instructors and tutors fades as learners move away from formal laboratories and classes. The mobile learners’ alternative is then to seek support from a peer, who shares a background. Learners in South African higher education institutions come from very diverse cultural and academic background. Thus, the provision of personalized academic support sensitive to the learner’s context and background remains one of the challenges facing these institutions. Provision of personalized support demands a Webbased mobile learning environment system capable of recognizing and building upon the learner’s diverse strength, social presence, ability and needs, in order to foster engaged independent, ubiquitous and collaborative learning. Informed by an empirical study, this paper conceptualizes a context-aware web-based learning environment. The proposed ubiquitous learning environment system is envisaged to conform to the learner’s needs through its context awareness and presence mechanism.
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