Tap it again, Sam: Harmonizing Personal Environments towards Lifelong Learning

Bernardo Tabuenca, Marco Kalz, Marcus Specht
2015 International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning  
The increasing number of mobile vendors releasing NFC-enabled devices to the market and their prominent adoption has moved this technology from a niche product to a product with a large market-share. NFC facilitates natural interactions between digital world and physical learning environments. The scaffolding of learning ecologies is a key aspect for lifelong learners in their challenge to integrate learning activities into busy daily life. The contribution of this manuscript is twofold: first,
more » ... a review of scientific literature in which NFC has been used with a direct or indirect purpose to learn is presented, and potential uses for learners are classified according to their type of interaction; based on these findings the NFC MediaPlayer is presented as an instantiation of an ecology of resources (EoR) in a lifelong learning context. Finally, shortcomings and best practices are highlighted in the conclusions, and future work is discussed. Index Terms-lifelong learning, Near Field Communication, seamless technology, learning ecology, smart home, video cast I. 4 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
doi:10.3991/ijac.v8i1.4383 fatcat:2oeg7k3qnrfwnes6dzoi4shtjm