A context-aware ubiquitous learning environment for conducting complex science experiments

Computers and Education

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 402-413

  Hwang, Gwo Jen ^a   Yang, Tzu Chi ^b   Tsai, Chin Chung ^c   Yang, Stephen J H ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computer assisted learning; Context awareness; Science experiments; Ubiquitous computing; Ubiquitous learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SUPPORT; COMPLEX SCIENCE; COMPUTER-ASSISTED LEARNING; CONDUCTING COMPLEXES; CONTEXT AWARENESS; CONTEXT-AWARE; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; RESEARCH INSTITUTES; SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS; SINGLE CRYSTAL X-RAY DIFFRACTION; U-LEARNING; UBIQUITOUS LEARNING; UBIQUITOUS LEARNING ENVIRONMENT;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; E-LEARNING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 67349273966     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.02.016     Document Type: Article

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