An Educational Networking Infrastructure Supporting Ubiquitous Learning for School Students

This paper proposes a pedagogical and technical approach to support the flow of learning activities outside of school and in class. One primary goal is to develop curricula that bring multimedia resources to outdoor settings to enrich the field experience, and to enable students to make connections between what they learn outside and the formal curriculum. A pilot user scenario and the supporting technology for a set of collaborative learning activities involving tasks of preparation, data gathering, data analyzing, visualization and modeling related to a diversity of content areas are described. The background for the mobile infrastructure, including a learning object repository, has been implemented and tested.