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Technology has the potential to disrupt lectures but it has an equal potential in creating engaging and interactive learning experiences. Traditional lectures often require none or little participation from the students and may therefore be considered boring. Moreover, there is insufficient feedback from the teacher and that little there is comes days or even weeks after a test has been given. In this paper, one2act PeLe (Peer Learning Assessment System) is presented. PeLe allows students to use their own mobile devices to answer questions in a quiz prepared by the teacher. Currently the system supports multiple choice questions. The answers are immediately gathered and aggregated in a form which allows the teacher to give feedback to the students right after the test was given. This way the students get an explanation about why something was wrong while they still have the problem fresh in mind.Next the most relevant scenarios of use for PeLe system will be introduced together with the rationale behind them. The system facilitates a number of pedagogical methods which can be integrated into the lectures. For example, the system can be used to create a few questions quiz in order to check if the students have understood the material taught in the previous lecture. When the quiz is ended the teacher has a number of choices on how she can go through the results and discuss the answers with the class. Depending on the case, the teacher could decide to ask the students to discuss with their peers and try to answer again a selected question or go for a class discussion and an individual revote on a certain question. In-class experiments suggest that a non-intrusive usage of PeLe in lectures can improve the dialog between teacher and students. The tool enables the teacher to shape the lecture according to the audience' needs. This can increase motivation among students who gain a sense of ownership and deepen the learning effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current day smart-phone is packed with a great assortment of sensors (ambient light, proximity, GPS, accelerometer, compass, gyro) and input modalities (touch, camera, microphone). This set of capabilities has spurred tens of thousands of developers to publish hundreds of thousands of mobile applications. The apple app store and the android market sum a total app download count of over 20 billion. How many of these apps have an mLearning focus and what sort of capabilities do they currently employ? What are some successful use cases extracted from this short market analysis? Considering the rapidly expanding mobile software and hardware space e-learning also has to adapt and move to this new medium. Most of the highly interactive desktop e-learning content has been traditionally developed using Adobe Flash. Does Flash still hold up in the mobile context or do the developers have take up HTML5 and/or native development for this type of content? This paper strives to give an answer to these questions by performing a short app markets analysis and developing an example app for a highly interactive use-case using three combinations of platforms and tools: flash/air, native and a mixed solution. The stumbling blocks encountered, and trade-offs made are expanded upon. Factors like the relative ease of implementation, the speed of deployment, multiplatform reach and app performance are also analyzed and trade-off points identified. As a final step conclusions are drawn as to the best path to choose for present day versus future development of highly interactive mLearning experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Children and elderly represent segments for which education is extremely important. It is a known fact that they are major consumers of information, especially from television. New technologies like NetTV will facilitate the distribution of multimedia educational content. In the context of the European ITEA2 Guarantee project, ALTFACTOR is developing a platform that relates the educational content with the information received from sensors. The platform will achieve continuous safety education for children and elderly through cartoon-based animations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work takes place in the framework of the realization of a pedagogical assistance system in the domain of technology enhanced learning (TEL) .In this context, we defend the thesis that it is possible to integrate an interface with a pedagogical agent in an ILE (interactive learning environment) based on web service, which aims to provide pedagogical assistance adapted to the learner. our approach is based on the analysis of the course of the learner , the system allows to represent , assist and analyze the evolution of a learning situation in order to detect the assistance status (blocking learner , non completing tasks...etc.) it is based on the comparison between the actions of the learning (traces) and action to perform (the domain model ) the traces provide knowledge about the learning situation with one of the web 2.0 reporting techniques .our approach focuses on the representation of the evolution of learning situations and on adaptive pedagogical agent that offers several types of pedagogical assistance . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]