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Title: |
Building a Context-Aware U-Learning Environment |
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Source: |
Proceedings of 2010 Cross-Strait Conference on Information Science and Technology (CSCIST 2010 E-BOOK)
(pp 710-714)
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Author(s): |
Anthony Y.H. Liao, Dept. of Information Science and Applications, Asia University, Taichung
Shian-Shyong Tseng, Dept. of Information Science and Applications, Asia University, Taichung
Mei-Hong Chen, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Eng., Asia University, Taichung
Shun-Pin Huang, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Eng., Asia University, Taichung |
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Abstract: |
In the past, the students only can learn the knowledge about earthquakes from the textbook and guess what could happen during the earthquakes by their imagination. Therefore, PDAs, wireless network and RFID technology are employed to construct a context-aware ubiquitous learning environment for our research in the Earthquake Museum of Taiwan located in Wufeng, Taichung, Taiwan. In this research, 60 sixth-grade students of an elementary school in Taichung County participated in the experiments of adaptive earthquake education. After implementing the adaptive earthquake education, the students can learn more knowledge about earth sciences, and have better understanding of frequent earthquakes and the reasons causing seismic disasters in Taiwan. According to the analysis of pre-test and post-test for the students, the test results show that the proposed context-aware ubiquitous learning environment can improve the learning performances of the students significantly.
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