Title :
A Community Information System for Ubiquitous Informal Learning Support
Author :
Nicolaescu, Petru ; Renzel, Dominik ; Koren, Israel ; Klamma, R. ; Purma, Jukka ; Bauters, Merja
Author_Institution :
Adv. Community Inf. Syst. (ACIS), RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany
Abstract :
There are many mobile apps supporting informal learning tasks like sense-making out of multimedia materials. However, regardless how well these have been implemented, their scope and scalability is limited either by over-specialization and consequently limited transferability or by over-generalization - with a lack of informal learning support for most Web 2.0 apps. Our cloud-based mobile Web information system approach is theoretically founded and designed for scalability in informal learning. As a proof of concept we present a semantic video annotation scenario for supporting informal learning at workplace. As the approach has been designed for community learning analytics, we can present results from a preliminary evaluation. We conducted our research with a strong commitment towards open source software development, so that our solutions are already available and can have impact beyond the usual scope of a funded project.
Keywords :
cloud computing; computer aided instruction; information systems; mobile computing; multimedia systems; public domain software; Web 2.0; cloud-based mobile Web information system; community information system; informal learning tasks; mobile apps; multimedia materials; open source software; ubiquitous informal learning support; Communities; Employment; Information systems; Mobile communication; Multimedia communication; Semantics; Streaming media; informal learning; semantic video annotation; ubiquitous multimedia information systems; workplace learning;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2014 IEEE 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2014.48