Unified and Personalized Messaging to Support E-Learning

Author

Mitchell, Keith ; Race, Nicholas J P ; McCaffery, Duncan ; Bryson, Mark ; Cai, Zhen

Author_Institution

Inf. Syst. Services, Lancaster Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

16-17 Nov. 2006

Firstpage

164

Lastpage

168

Abstract

The University of Lancaster is a campus based educational institution with over 10,000 members of staff and students on campus during a typical day. The University is currently investigating the use of mobile and smart devices as a platform for delivering mobile learning services and administrative information on a personalized basis. This paper describes two current active areas of development. First, we present an SMS text messaging extension to our virtual learning environment (VLE) and describe how this is used to provide personalized messaging. Second, we present our work on a Bluetooth based communications service, named BlueZone, which we use to complement SMS text messaging to offer an alternative communications platform to students. The combination of these technologies provides a unified and cost effective delivery mechanism for communicating with University undergraduates on a large scale

Keywords

Bluetooth; distance learning; electronic messaging; mobile communication; BlueZone; Bluetooth based communications service; SMS text messaging extension; e-learning; mobile devices; personalized messaging; smart devices; virtual learning environment; Bluetooth; Costs; Databases; Educational technology; Electronic learning; Hardware; Information systems; Mobile communication; Plasma displays; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education, 2006. WMUTE '06. Fourth IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2723-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WMTE.2006.261368

Filename

4032545