SCORM/IMS-based Standards for Describing Personal and Environmental Contexts in Ubiquitous Learning Environments

The prosperous development of wireless communication and sensor technologies has attracted the attentions of researchers from both computer and education fields. Various investigations have been made for applying the newly technologies to education purpose, such that more active and adaptive learning activities can be conducted in the real world. Nowadays, ubiquitous learning (u-learning) has become a popular trend of education all over the world, and hence it is important to review the current e-learning standard that has been proposed to promote resources sharing and cross platform applications. In this paper, a SCORM/IMS-based standard is propose, which takes the features of context awareness and real-world learning activities of ubiquitous learning into consideration. Moreover, some illustrative examples are given to demonstrate the usefulness of the standard.