Integration of Technologies in the Development of Interactive Educational Content

Abstract

Nowadays, different possibilities like desktop, mobile computers and mobile devices allows learners to access digital learning content. These technologies and the Internet have enabled ubiquitous and virtual learning environments, but some issues arise when the user is not connected. This paper propose the use of sheets of paper as an alternative medium to provide ubiquitous learning even when the user has not an active connection. Although of printed media to be used a lot as an education resource, the printed media has limitations on interactivity. Thus, this paper presents some possibilities of use the printed media to access the content available in the Learning Management System (LMS), allowing more interactivity. 2 INTEGRATION OF PRINTED MEDIA, 2D CODES AND MOBILE DEVICE Some possibilities of technologies appropriate to recognize the paper as an input device of data in a computer are presented in Klemmer (2003): Passive RFID tags (eg. RFID-Radio Frequency Identification and IR-Infra-Red); Active electronic tags (e.g., motes); Labels visual (includes 2D glyphs and QR Code); Content analysis based on image processing (eg, OCR-Optical Character Recognition).