How to Define and Apply Mobile Personal Learning Environments

Miguel Ángel Conde González, Francisco García Peñalvo, Marc Alier, Jordi Piguillem

2012

Abstract

The application of ICT to learning, the 2.0 trends and the widespread of technologies such as the mobile devices make necessary to provide new solutions to satisfy learner necessities. Such solutions should take into account the students as the center of the learning process. They should be able to decide what tools they use to learn and the institution, independently of the context where learning activities are carried out, must consider what students do in such personal learning activities. In addition those environments should be accessible through mobile devices. During this paper a service-based approach to define mobile personal learning environments that allow communication with the institutional learning platforms, is described. Such approach is implemented and evaluated in order to show that such kind of mobile learning platform is possible, increase students’ motivation and help them to learn.

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Conde González M., García Peñalvo F., Alier M. and Piguillem J. (2012). How to Define and Apply Mobile Personal Learning Environments . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Interaction Design in Educational Environments - Volume 1: IDEE, (ICEIS 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-17-4, pages 57-66. DOI: 10.5220/0004097000570066


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@conference{idee12,
author={Miguel Ángel Conde González and Francisco García Peñalvo and Marc Alier and Jordi Piguillem},
title={How to Define and Apply Mobile Personal Learning Environments},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Interaction Design in Educational Environments - Volume 1: IDEE, (ICEIS 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={57-66},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004097000570066},
isbn={978-989-8565-17-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Interaction Design in Educational Environments - Volume 1: IDEE, (ICEIS 2012)
TI - How to Define and Apply Mobile Personal Learning Environments
SN - 978-989-8565-17-4
AU - Conde González M.
AU - García Peñalvo F.
AU - Alier M.
AU - Piguillem J.
PY - 2012
SP - 57
EP - 66
DO - 10.5220/0004097000570066