Ubiquitous eLearning With Multimodal Multimedia Devices

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Ubiquitous e-Learning With Multimodal Multimedia
Devices

• Authors
• 1.Timothy K. Shih, Department of CSIE , Tamkang
  University
• 2.Te-Hua Wang , Department of CSIE , Tamkang
  University
• 3.Chih-Yung Chang , Department of CSIE , Tamkang
  University
• 4.Tai-Chien Kao , Institute of Eduction,National
  Dong Hwa University
• 5.Douglas Hamilton, Academic ADL Co-Lab
• Source
• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA, VOL. 9, NO. 3,
  APRIL 2007

Reporter Chia - Yuan Huang Date 2007/11/20
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Outline

• Introduction
• Reasons
• solutions
• Background
• The SCORM Standard
• LMS
• The Hard SCORM Project
• Hard SCORM Tags and Authoring Tool
• Hard SCORM textbook
• Hard SCORM Machine and Transition Table
• The Hard SCORM LMS
• Experiment and Result
• Conclusions

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Introduction

• Reasons
• Web-based learning and distance learning is
  popular , but people still prefer reading on
  printed books.
• How to bridge the gap between the printed pages
  and computers ?
• To make the learning be anytime and anywhere ,
  the learning devices must be easy to carry.

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Introduction

• Solutions
• the Hard SCORM project
• A pen-like device based on OCR(Optical Character
  Reader) technology , called Hyper Pens in this
  paper.
• The Hyper pens scan some tags printed on a book,
  and a computer is used for multimedia
  interaction.
• We call this Hyper pen-based learning the Hard
  SCORM project.
• Other learning devices
• E-Learning on PDAs or cellular phones
• E-learning on PC

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Introduction
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Background

• The SCORM Standard
• Shareable Content Object Reference Model
• A standard in e-Learning domain
• Aims to make the learning object be reusable and
  be accessed by any SCORM compatible LMS.
• The LMS
• Learning Management System
• To manage Learning content?delivery?online test ,
  etc.

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The Hard SCORM Project

• The Hard SCORM Tags
• Are recognized by Hyper Pen to allow Hyper Pen
  and the LMS to communicate.
• Are divided for four categories

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The Hard SCORM Project

• The Authoring Tool
• 1.Menu and Tool Bars 2.Content
  Aggregation Window 3.Resource Pool
  Window 4.Hard SCORM Tag Bar 5.Content
  Design Window

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The Hard SCORM Project

• The Hard SCORM textbook ?
• Hard SCORM Student ID for each student to log in
  to the LMS

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The Hard SCORM Project

• The Hard SCORM Machine ( based on the concept of
  finite state machine(FSM) )

TABLE III - Summary of Audio Messages
TABLE I - Transition of the HSM
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The Hard SCORM Project

• The Hard SCORM LMS

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The Hard SCORM Project

• The Hard SCORM LMS supports different learning
  devices including PCs, PDAs , cellular phones,
  and Hyper Pen.
• Have been tested
• PDAs Dopod 700, HP iPAQ 5550, and
  AnexTEK SP230
• Smartphones Dopod 565 and Mio8390

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Experiment and Result
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Experiment and Result
2nd
3rd
3rd
2nd
2nd
3rd
CTconventional(traditional) textbooks OLonline
LMS with PDA HSthe Hard SCORM textbooks with
Hyper pen
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Conclusions

• The main contribution of this paper is to connect
  the reading in a traditional manner and learning
  by using electronic devices .
• Although the final scores of the three distinct
  learning platforms are not significantly
  different, however
• the learning performance is improved.(really?)
• the information overload is not increasing
  significantly while dealing with the multimodal
  learning devices.
• We believe that, with high-tech mobile devices,
  ubiquitous e-learning will have a positive impact
  on education, especially for the younger who are
  enthusiastic about using mobile devices.

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Future research

• To use the built-in camera on a PDA or cellular
  phone to recognize the tags .
• To improve the tags for being more clearly
  recognized and having more functions.

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My Comments

• Do we really need to use the Hyper Pen?
• No
• a mouse can help us do all those works that the
  Hyper Pen helps us do.
• In fact , the experiment result shows that the
  Hyper Pen does not efficiently help the students
  learning.

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The END

• Thank you!
• My e-mail
• M9608125_at_fcu.edu.tw
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