Your Cart

• Log in

• Related Products
• Parent
  • • Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal
• Associated
  • • The Efficacy of Web-Based Teaching in Experiential Learning
  • • (Un)Successful Teaching with Computer Technology
  • • Ubiquitous Learning
  • • Automated Writing Aides
  • • Service Learning in the Digital Age
  • • Personal Multimedia Player for English Listening Training
  • • Ubiquitous Computing and Qtopia
  • • Literacy on the Go
  • • Influence of the Service Quality of the Self- Access Language Learning Center on College Students’ Perceived English Improvement
  • • Semiotic Tools for Evaluating Electronic Mathematical Texts

Ubiquitous Learning: An Ontology

By Arkalgud Ramaprasad.

Published by Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal

This paper presents an ontology of ubiquitous learning based on three dimensions of ubiquity: temporal, semiotic, and spatial ubiquity, and two dimensions of learning: entities and technologies. A simple taxonomy is used to denote each dimension. Thus the ontology has five dimensions with multiple categories denoting each dimension. A natural language description of ubiquitous learning can be concatenated by combining a category from each dimension with suitable conjunctive words and phrases. Four illustrative descriptions are as follows:
• Ad hoc knowledge acquisition at fixed locations by individuals using passive technologies.
• Continuous knowledge application at mobile locations by societies using intelligent technologies.
• On-demand knowledge acquisition at variable locations by organizations using interactive technologies.
• Planned knowledge application at mobile locations by groups using active technologies.
These four with 380 other combinations derived from the ontology represent a closed, complete description of ubiquitous learning. The ontology can be refined, modified, and extended by changing its dimensions and taxonomies. The ontology provides a simple method of systematically representing and analyzing the complexity of ubiquitous learning comprehensively.

Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp.57-66. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 1.753MB).

Dr. Arkalgud Ramaprasad

Professor, Information and Decision Sciences, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA