Title :
A Card Based Metaphor for Organising Pervasive Educational Experiences
Author :
Weal, Mark J. ; Cruickshank, Don ; Michaelides, Danius T. ; Millard, David E. ; De Roure, David C. ; Howland, Katherine ; Fitzpatrick, Geraldine
Author_Institution :
IAM Group, Southampton Univ.
Abstract :
This paper looks at the card metaphor used successfully in the Equator Ambient Wood and Chawton House projects to structure and author content as part of innovative school field trips using wireless and ubiquitous technologies. The framework provided by the metaphor is laid out and observations made as to how it has been used by domain experts in creating educational experiences. The trade-off between formalisation and restricting pedagogy is examined and key benefits that the metaphor provides are given
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; ubiquitous computing; Chawton House projects; Equator Ambient Wood; card based metaphor; pervasive educational experiences; ubiquitous technologies; wireless technologies; Abstracts; Collaboration; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Informatics; Mobile computing; Pervasive computing;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, 2007. PerCom Workshops '07. Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
White Plains, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2788-4
DOI :
10.1109/PERCOMW.2007.3
