Next Generation Environments for Context-Aware Learning Design

2011 ◽  
pp. 125-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Charlton ◽  
George D. Magoulas
Keyword(s):  
Context Aware ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Next Generation

Context-aware Framework for Supporting Personalisation and Adaptation in Creation of Learning Designs

2012 ◽  
pp. 229-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Charlton ◽  
George D. Magoulas
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
User Study ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Design Tools ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Resource Creation ◽  
High Level

One of the current interests in the field of learning design is to find ways to support teachers who wish to develop designs that incorporate digital technologies. The focus from a pedagogical point of view is to enable teachers to exploit the constructivist potential of digital technologies for learning: those that support learners in discussing, collaborating, and creating user-generated designs. These general requirements align at the high-level with the Semantic Web vision of resource creation, sharing and re-use. Leveraging the Semantic Web developments and exploiting the observation that ontological models can form the domain grounding for context-aware applications, this chapter provides the design of a framework for supporting next generation learning design tools that provide adaptive and personalised experiences. Included in the chapter are the initial findings from the result of a user study of the framework.

Context-aware semantic discovery for next generation mobile systems

2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (9) ◽  
pp. 62-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Bellavista ◽  
A. Corradi ◽  
R. Montanari ◽  
A. Toninelli
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Systems ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Semantic Discovery

A study on next‐generation digital library using context‐awareness technology

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Younghee Noh
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Semantic Retrieval ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Climate Control ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Reference Services

PurposeThis study seeks to examine the concepts of context, context‐awareness, and context‐awareness technology needed for applying context‐awareness technology to the next‐generation of digital libraries, and proposed context‐aware services that can be applied to any situation by illustrating some library contexts.Design/methodology/approachThe paper investigated both theoretical research and case analysis studies before suggesting a service model for context‐awareness‐based libraries by examining the context, context‐awareness, and context‐awareness technology in depth.FindingsThis paper derived possible library services which could be provided if context‐awareness services are implemented by examining and analyzing case studies and systems constructed in other fields. A library‐applied context‐aware system could recognize users entering the library and provide optimal services tailored to each situation for both new and existing users. In addition, the context‐awareness‐based library could provide context‐awareness‐based reference services, context‐awareness‐based loan services, and cater to other user needs in the stacks, research space, and a variety of other information spaces. The context‐awareness‐based library could also recognize users in need of emergency assistance by detecting the user's behavior, movement path, and temperature, etc. Comfort or climate‐control services could provide the user with control of the temperature, humidity, illumination and other environmental elements to fit the circumstances of users, books, and instruments through context‐aware technology.Practical implicationsNext‐generation digital libraries apply new concepts such as semantic retrieval, real‐time web, cloud computing, mobile web, linked data, and context‐awareness. Context‐awareness‐based libraries can provide applied context‐awareness access service, reactive space according to the user's access, applied context‐awareness lobbies, applied context‐awareness reference services, and applied context‐awareness safety services, context‐awareness‐based comfort services and so on.Originality/valueReal instances of libraries applying context‐aware technology are few, according to the investigative results of this study. The study finds that the next‐generation digital library using context‐awareness technology can provide the best possible service for the convenience of its users.

Karyotype Analysis Activity

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-67
Author(s):  
Noveera T. Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Karyotype Analysis ◽  
Next Generation Science Standards ◽  
Constructivist Learning ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Classroom Activity ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Science Standards ◽  
Chromosome Theory ◽  
Meiotic Nondisjunction ◽  
The Relationship

This classroom activity is based on a constructivist learning design and engages students in physically constructing a karyotype of three mock patients. Students then diagnose the chromosomal aneuploidy based on the karyotype, list the symptoms associated with the disorder, and discuss the implications of the diagnosis. This activity is targeted at undergraduates in a nonmajors genetics course, but the goals align with AP Biology Big Idea 3 and Next Generation Science Standards HS-LS3. The activity illustrates the relationship between genotype and phenotype, reinforces the chromosome theory of inheritance, and includes mapping of meiotic nondisjunction events.

Context-Aware Service Provisioning in Next-Generation Networks

2011 ◽  
pp. 19-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vedran Podobnik ◽  
Krunoslav Trzec ◽  
Gordan Jezic
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Next Generation Networks ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Service Provisioning ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Context Aware Service

This paper presents an application of multi-agent system in ubiquitous computing scenarios characteristic of next-generation networks. Next-generation networks will create environments populated with a vast number of consumers, which will possess diverse types of context-aware devices. In such environments the consumer should be able to access all the available services anytime, from any place, and by using any of its communication-enabled devices. Consequently, next-generation networks will require efficient mechanisms which can match consumers’ demands (requested services) to network-operators’ supplies (available services). The authors propose an agent approach for enabling autonomous coordination between all the entities across the telecom value chain, thus enabling automated context-aware service provisioning for the consumers. Furthermore, the authors hope that the proposed service discovery model will not only be interesting from a scientific point of view, but also amenable to real-world applications.

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