MobiLearn
| Description
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Technological advances in information and
communication systems like the convergence of wireless
communication and mobile and handheld computers have
challenged higher education worldwide to adopt the
opportunities of networked knowledge acquisition and
delivery — both from a methodological and a
technological viewpoint. Among the recent technology
trends, particularly the confluence of wire-less
communication standards (like WiFi WLANs, providing
data rates up to 11 and 54 Mbit/s) and a broad
availability of small and miniaturized learning devices
like notebook, handheld and pocket computers gives rise
for a new landscape of learning as a networked,
situated, contextual and life-long activity. In this
landscape, learning is not confined to pre-specified
times, places, learners or learning situations, but
happens whenever (“any-time”), wherever
(“any-place”), whoever
(“personalized”) and in which situation
ever (“situative”) there is demand to
acquire knowledge, to gain insight and understanding,
to share ideas or to address and solve a problem. Whole
new views of learning and teaching processes are to be
developed and supported, relating learning models,
learning methods, didactics, team organization and
situational behavior models with those new
technologies. The project MobiLearn aims at the
development of concepts, methods and tools implementing
“Mobile Learning Technologies”, and to
experiment with and gain experience from a mobile
learning scenario to be created and established in the
Austrian university-level education system.
A mobile learning framework will be developed in the context of Media Informatics as a reference, aiming at a modular and compositional system of computer science content frames, provided for plug-and-play use and situative access from arbitrary mobile learning devices — anytime, anywhere. As such, the framework will represent a methodologically and didactically well designed mobile learning platform, ready for immediate reuse in other content domains like medicine, engineering, humanities, economics, social science, etc. It will — above university-level education — serve as a reference implementation for the evolving contextual life-long learning systems. Wireless access technologies like WiFi WLANs are weaving into everyday environments like buildings and spaces on a property, city or regional scale, thus representing the communication infrastructure of the future mobile learning systems. The “Wireless Campus” project at the University of Linz and related initiatives at the University of Klagenfurt, the Technical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna are indicators for this development and will serve as the communication platform for this project. supported by the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture under the NML programme |
| Duration
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2004 - 2006 (joined 2005)
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| Role
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project member, project management
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| Publications
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none |
| Link
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www.mobilearn.at (in German)
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