Web-Based Context-Aware Science Learning

Abstract

In this paper, we describe an innovative project where Web technologies are exploited to foster science learning in an integrated but mobile smart learning environment. Contextawareness is considered a crucial skill in science learning, and we therefore imagined a solution to train students for context awareness by illustrating context gaps based on on-site observations and measurements. A component named MazCalc contains the parameters of each context and allows us to compute the context gap and its potential to stimulate context-awareness among students. International collaborative learning is structured in such a way to induce students to make comparisons and discuss the topic studied. Experiments are being conducted in Biology and are in preparation in Geology.

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