From Learning Object to Learning Cell: A Resource Organization Model for Ubiquitous Learning

This paper presents a new model for organizing learning resources: Learning Cell. This model is open, evolving, cohesive, social, and context-aware. By introducing a time dimension into the organization of learning resources, Learning Cell supports the dynamic evolution of learning resources while t...

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Published in:Educational Technology ＆ Society 2015-04, Vol.18 (2), p.206-224
Main Authors: Yu, Shengquan, Yang, Xianmin, Cheng, Gang, Wang, Minjuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aggregation
Ambient intelligence
Blended Learning
Case Studies
Cell phones
China
Cloud computing
Cognition
Collaborative learning
Communities of Practice
Context Effect
Domain ontologies
Educational activities
Educational environment
Educational Resources
Educational Technology
Electronic Learning
Foreign Countries
Full Length Articles
Information Storage
Integrated Learning Systems
Knowledge
Knowledge Management
Learning
Management
Online education
Open Source Technology
Semantics
Service learning
Shared Resources and Services
Social Cognition
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Summary:This paper presents a new model for organizing learning resources: Learning Cell. This model is open, evolving, cohesive, social, and context-aware. By introducing a time dimension into the organization of learning resources, Learning Cell supports the dynamic evolution of learning resources while they are being used. In addition, by introducing a semantic gene (knowledge ontology) into the model, Learning Cell can flexibly describe the internal structure and external relations of learning resources, allowing the evolution of learning resources to occur in an orderly way. Furthermore, by employing a computational model of a social cognition network, Learning Cell enables not only materialized resource sharing but also the sharing of social cognition networks. Finally, by separately deploying resource structures and resource content in the cloud storage model, Learning Cell achieves context awareness of ubiquitous learning (u-learning) resources. Learning Cell represents a resource aggregation model that is different from the learning object model. It makes up for the defects of existing learning technologies in the following areas: the sharing of process information and social cognition networks, the intelligence of resources, and the evolution of content. Learning Cell provides a theoretical framework of u-learning resource organization.
ISSN:1176-3647
1436-4522
1436-4522