The rapid transformation of mobile phones from voice-based communication devices to networked min... more The rapid transformation of mobile phones from voice-based communication devices to networked mini computers with advanced sensing and multimedia capabilities affords new ways of m-learning. This paper describes the development of collaborative mobile knowledge sharing system for language learners (CloudBank) that combines the characteristics of personal use, contextual use, informal learning, Web 2.0 ideas of user-generated content, content syndication and social networks, to build a mobileand web-based crowed-source information system to help international students further their knowledge and understanding of local UK language and culture. An overview of the application design using the scenario based design approach is given and technical architecture and implementation of the system is discussed. The paper concludes with a discussion of future research issues that arise in the context of crowed source information system for ubiquitous language learning.
One claim of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) is to support and exploit benefits from distance ... more One claim of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) is to support and exploit benefits from distance learning and remote collaboration. On the other hand, several approaches to learning emphasize the importance of handson experience. Unfortunately, these two goals don't go well together with traditional learning techniques. Even though TEL technologies can alleviate this problem, it is not sufficiently solved yet-remote collaboration usually comes at the cost of losing direct hands-on access. The ARiSE project aimed at bringing Augmented Reality (AR) to School Environments, a technology that can potentially bridge the gap between the two goals mentioned. The project has designed, implemented and evaluated a pedagogical reference scenario where students worked hands-on together over large distances. This paper describes the AR learning approach we followed and discusses its implementation and its future potential. It shows a simple and successful distributed AR learning approach and suggests features for improvement.
IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE'05)
In this paper we describe the design and development of a system that facilitates language learni... more In this paper we describe the design and development of a system that facilitates language learning from a combination of two devices, interactive television (iTV) and mobile phone. We present a number of requirements for technologies to support informal language learning based on theories of language learning, theories of formal and informal learning, our own studies of adult language learners and the affordances of iTV as a medium to support learning. We describe TAMALLE (Television and Mobile phone Assisted Language Learning Environment), a prototype system based on these requirements and discuss some of the user interface design issues that arise in the context of cross platform dual device systems for ubiquitous learning.
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2004. Proceedings.
Researchers have investigated the possibilities for supporting language learning through a range ... more Researchers have investigated the possibilities for supporting language learning through a range of technologies, most recently mobile phones and interactive television (iTV). Drawing on a focus group study, we present a scenario demonstrating an approach that blends the features of these two technologies. Three areas are identified for further exploration: pedagogy, technical feasibility and interaction design issues.
Designers of technological support for learning have an ever-increasing selection of platforms an... more Designers of technological support for learning have an ever-increasing selection of platforms and devices at their disposal, as desktop computers are joined by mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), laptops, games consoles, and wearable devices. Digital television is a recent addition to this panoply of platforms and devices. Television has always had educational aims and effects, and it is natural for digital television to continue this tendency. In this chapter we examine the potential application of interactive digital television to the learning of languages. We explore the "fit" between the capabilities of the medium and the requirements of language learners. We then describe an application that combines the strengths of interactive digital television with those of the mobile phone to create a cross-platform learning application for informal language learners. 1
Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computer supported collaborative learning - CSCL'09, 2009
Augmented Reality as an interactive real-time technology combining real and virtual objects in a ... more Augmented Reality as an interactive real-time technology combining real and virtual objects in a real 3D space carries enormous educational potential. We describe a project (ARISE: Augmented Reality in School Environments) that aims to realise this potential by developing a collaborative, robust and affordable Augmented Reality learning platform for schools. The learning affordances of Augmented Reality are discussed, and an educational application is described that supports remote collaboration between students in a shared 3D workspace, where students from different countries present, discuss and manipulate virtual objects relating to their local culture. The evaluation of the application is based on a distributed summer school project involving students from two European countries. In addition to more conventional evaluation approaches, special requirements for evaluating remote collaboration in a shared Augmented Reality workspace have been met with a customised approach involving synchronised video observations in both locations with subsequent editing of the material into and a single screen giving a comprehensive overview of the collaboration from both ends. The results of the evaluation study are currently being analysed, but preliminary findings suggest that the Augmented Reality learning platform has been well received by students and teachers, and is well suited for remote collaborative learning.
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2011
Recent research has identified excessive device focus as a serious problem in collaborative mobil... more Recent research has identified excessive device focus as a serious problem in collaborative mobile learning as it undermines key ideas of learners engaging with their co-learners in context-rich authentic settings. Various recommendations have been formulated to address device focus in the design of mobile learning technology and pedagogy and foster students’ engagement with both their peers and their environment. This paper describes how some of these recommendations have been implemented and extended in the design of Invisible Buildings, a mobile collaborative game-based activity for schoolchildren. It reports the results of an empirical evaluation of the learning experience with primary school children, focusing on students’ engagement with their social and physical context during learning activities, and providing insights into their behaviour and strategies with respect to device sharing. Findings broadly confirm the effectiveness of the implemented measures and show good stude...
Journal of Educational Technology and Society, 2005
Interactive television (iTV) is a new media technology that has great potential for supporting se... more Interactive television (iTV) is a new media technology that has great potential for supporting second language learning, particularly for independent adult learners. It has many characteristics demanded by modern second language (L2) learning theories and is technologically quite sophisticated. However, in order for it to succeed it needs to fit in with these learners' approaches to media use in language learning. While there is an extensive literature on many other aspects of language learning and teaching, particularly in ...
We describe the development process for an authoring and delivery environment for ubiquitous elea... more We describe the development process for an authoring and delivery environment for ubiquitous elearning currently under development in the context of an EU FP6 project. The early requirements-gathering stage of the project used a distributed scenario-based method, inviting participatory idea generation from designers and potential users in nine partner countries. We present a number of the scenarios that resulted from this process, enabling the derivation of requirements for the overall architecture for the system. Finally, ...
In this paper, we describe the early requirements gathering stage of an EU FP6 project1 using a d... more In this paper, we describe the early requirements gathering stage of an EU FP6 project1 using a distributed scenario-based method. Through the collaborative development of scenarios among project partners in nine different countries, enabling the derivation of requirements for the overall architecture for the system.
Journal of the Research Centre for Educational Technology (RCET), 2010
The CloudBank project aims to build a mobile-and web-based crowd-sourced information system to he... more The CloudBank project aims to build a mobile-and web-based crowd-sourced information system to help international students further their knowledge and understanding of local UK language and culture. The system enables students to collect, annotate, and tag interesting or puzzling language-and culture-related content found in everyday life, including text, images, and other media, and to upload these content items to a repository. From the repository, the information can be syndicated, eg via RSS feeds/widgets integrated into ...
Designers of technological support for learning have an ever-increasing selection of platforms an... more Designers of technological support for learning have an ever-increasing selection of platforms and devices at their disposal, as desktop computers are joined by mobile phones, PDA's, laptops, games consoles, digital television and wearable devices. It is unlikely that a single technology will be a perfect fit for all aspects of a learning task. Many situations will call on the strengths of a number of devices in combination. However, distributing functionality across different devices may create new problems for interaction and ...
JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGYAND SOCIETY, Oct 1, 2005
Interactive television (iTV) is a new media technology that has great potential for supporting se... more Interactive television (iTV) is a new media technology that has great potential for supporting second language learning, particularly for independent adult learners. It has many characteristics demanded by modern second language (L2) learning theories and is technologically quite sophisticated. However, in order for it to succeed it needs to fit in with these learners' approaches to media use in language learning. While there is an extensive literature on many other aspects of language learning and teaching, particularly in ...
Mobile and ubiquitous learning technologies hold out great promise for students of foreign langua... more Mobile and ubiquitous learning technologies hold out great promise for students of foreign languages who are resident in a target language country, since they can be used in the contexts in which the language learner needs to use his/her language skills for deploying or interpreting language. The CloudBank project aims to integrate a user created content paradigm with mobile learning technologies so that language learners can upload, share and comment on interesting language items they encounter in everyday life in the target ...
The rapid transformation of mobile phones from voice-based communication devices to networked min... more The rapid transformation of mobile phones from voice-based communication devices to networked mini computers with advanced sensing and multimedia capabilities affords new ways of m-learning. This paper describes the development of collaborative mobile knowledge sharing system for language learners (CloudBank) that combines the characteristics of personal use, contextual use, informal learning, Web 2.0 ideas of user-generated content, content syndication and social networks, to build a mobileand web-based crowed-source information system to help international students further their knowledge and understanding of local UK language and culture. An overview of the application design using the scenario based design approach is given and technical architecture and implementation of the system is discussed. The paper concludes with a discussion of future research issues that arise in the context of crowed source information system for ubiquitous language learning.
One claim of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) is to support and exploit benefits from distance ... more One claim of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) is to support and exploit benefits from distance learning and remote collaboration. On the other hand, several approaches to learning emphasize the importance of handson experience. Unfortunately, these two goals don't go well together with traditional learning techniques. Even though TEL technologies can alleviate this problem, it is not sufficiently solved yet-remote collaboration usually comes at the cost of losing direct hands-on access. The ARiSE project aimed at bringing Augmented Reality (AR) to School Environments, a technology that can potentially bridge the gap between the two goals mentioned. The project has designed, implemented and evaluated a pedagogical reference scenario where students worked hands-on together over large distances. This paper describes the AR learning approach we followed and discusses its implementation and its future potential. It shows a simple and successful distributed AR learning approach and suggests features for improvement.
IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE'05)
In this paper we describe the design and development of a system that facilitates language learni... more In this paper we describe the design and development of a system that facilitates language learning from a combination of two devices, interactive television (iTV) and mobile phone. We present a number of requirements for technologies to support informal language learning based on theories of language learning, theories of formal and informal learning, our own studies of adult language learners and the affordances of iTV as a medium to support learning. We describe TAMALLE (Television and Mobile phone Assisted Language Learning Environment), a prototype system based on these requirements and discuss some of the user interface design issues that arise in the context of cross platform dual device systems for ubiquitous learning.
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2004. Proceedings.
Researchers have investigated the possibilities for supporting language learning through a range ... more Researchers have investigated the possibilities for supporting language learning through a range of technologies, most recently mobile phones and interactive television (iTV). Drawing on a focus group study, we present a scenario demonstrating an approach that blends the features of these two technologies. Three areas are identified for further exploration: pedagogy, technical feasibility and interaction design issues.
Designers of technological support for learning have an ever-increasing selection of platforms an... more Designers of technological support for learning have an ever-increasing selection of platforms and devices at their disposal, as desktop computers are joined by mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), laptops, games consoles, and wearable devices. Digital television is a recent addition to this panoply of platforms and devices. Television has always had educational aims and effects, and it is natural for digital television to continue this tendency. In this chapter we examine the potential application of interactive digital television to the learning of languages. We explore the "fit" between the capabilities of the medium and the requirements of language learners. We then describe an application that combines the strengths of interactive digital television with those of the mobile phone to create a cross-platform learning application for informal language learners. 1
Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computer supported collaborative learning - CSCL'09, 2009
Augmented Reality as an interactive real-time technology combining real and virtual objects in a ... more Augmented Reality as an interactive real-time technology combining real and virtual objects in a real 3D space carries enormous educational potential. We describe a project (ARISE: Augmented Reality in School Environments) that aims to realise this potential by developing a collaborative, robust and affordable Augmented Reality learning platform for schools. The learning affordances of Augmented Reality are discussed, and an educational application is described that supports remote collaboration between students in a shared 3D workspace, where students from different countries present, discuss and manipulate virtual objects relating to their local culture. The evaluation of the application is based on a distributed summer school project involving students from two European countries. In addition to more conventional evaluation approaches, special requirements for evaluating remote collaboration in a shared Augmented Reality workspace have been met with a customised approach involving synchronised video observations in both locations with subsequent editing of the material into and a single screen giving a comprehensive overview of the collaboration from both ends. The results of the evaluation study are currently being analysed, but preliminary findings suggest that the Augmented Reality learning platform has been well received by students and teachers, and is well suited for remote collaborative learning.
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2011
Recent research has identified excessive device focus as a serious problem in collaborative mobil... more Recent research has identified excessive device focus as a serious problem in collaborative mobile learning as it undermines key ideas of learners engaging with their co-learners in context-rich authentic settings. Various recommendations have been formulated to address device focus in the design of mobile learning technology and pedagogy and foster students’ engagement with both their peers and their environment. This paper describes how some of these recommendations have been implemented and extended in the design of Invisible Buildings, a mobile collaborative game-based activity for schoolchildren. It reports the results of an empirical evaluation of the learning experience with primary school children, focusing on students’ engagement with their social and physical context during learning activities, and providing insights into their behaviour and strategies with respect to device sharing. Findings broadly confirm the effectiveness of the implemented measures and show good stude...
Journal of Educational Technology and Society, 2005
Interactive television (iTV) is a new media technology that has great potential for supporting se... more Interactive television (iTV) is a new media technology that has great potential for supporting second language learning, particularly for independent adult learners. It has many characteristics demanded by modern second language (L2) learning theories and is technologically quite sophisticated. However, in order for it to succeed it needs to fit in with these learners' approaches to media use in language learning. While there is an extensive literature on many other aspects of language learning and teaching, particularly in ...
We describe the development process for an authoring and delivery environment for ubiquitous elea... more We describe the development process for an authoring and delivery environment for ubiquitous elearning currently under development in the context of an EU FP6 project. The early requirements-gathering stage of the project used a distributed scenario-based method, inviting participatory idea generation from designers and potential users in nine partner countries. We present a number of the scenarios that resulted from this process, enabling the derivation of requirements for the overall architecture for the system. Finally, ...
In this paper, we describe the early requirements gathering stage of an EU FP6 project1 using a d... more In this paper, we describe the early requirements gathering stage of an EU FP6 project1 using a distributed scenario-based method. Through the collaborative development of scenarios among project partners in nine different countries, enabling the derivation of requirements for the overall architecture for the system.
Journal of the Research Centre for Educational Technology (RCET), 2010
The CloudBank project aims to build a mobile-and web-based crowd-sourced information system to he... more The CloudBank project aims to build a mobile-and web-based crowd-sourced information system to help international students further their knowledge and understanding of local UK language and culture. The system enables students to collect, annotate, and tag interesting or puzzling language-and culture-related content found in everyday life, including text, images, and other media, and to upload these content items to a repository. From the repository, the information can be syndicated, eg via RSS feeds/widgets integrated into ...
Designers of technological support for learning have an ever-increasing selection of platforms an... more Designers of technological support for learning have an ever-increasing selection of platforms and devices at their disposal, as desktop computers are joined by mobile phones, PDA's, laptops, games consoles, digital television and wearable devices. It is unlikely that a single technology will be a perfect fit for all aspects of a learning task. Many situations will call on the strengths of a number of devices in combination. However, distributing functionality across different devices may create new problems for interaction and ...
JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGYAND SOCIETY, Oct 1, 2005
Interactive television (iTV) is a new media technology that has great potential for supporting se... more Interactive television (iTV) is a new media technology that has great potential for supporting second language learning, particularly for independent adult learners. It has many characteristics demanded by modern second language (L2) learning theories and is technologically quite sophisticated. However, in order for it to succeed it needs to fit in with these learners' approaches to media use in language learning. While there is an extensive literature on many other aspects of language learning and teaching, particularly in ...
Mobile and ubiquitous learning technologies hold out great promise for students of foreign langua... more Mobile and ubiquitous learning technologies hold out great promise for students of foreign languages who are resident in a target language country, since they can be used in the contexts in which the language learner needs to use his/her language skills for deploying or interpreting language. The CloudBank project aims to integrate a user created content paradigm with mobile learning technologies so that language learners can upload, share and comment on interesting language items they encounter in everyday life in the target ...
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