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Mobile authoring of open educational resources for authentic learning scenarios
Tabuenca, Bernardo · Kalz, Marco · Ternier, Stefaan · Specht, Marcus

PublishedDecember 2014
JournalUniversal Access in the Information Society
Pages 1-15

ABSTRACT
The proliferation of smartphones in the last decade and the number of publications in the field of authoring systems for computer-assisted learning depict a scenario that needs to be explored in order to facilitate the scaffolding of learning activities across contexts. Learning resources are traditionally designed in desktop-based authoring systems where the context is mostly restricted to the learning objective, capturing relevant case characteristics, or virtual situation models. Mobile authoring tools enable learners and teachers to foster universal access to educational resources not only providing channels to share, remix or re-contextualize these, but also capturing the context in-situ and in-time. As a further matter, authoring educational resources in a mobile context is an authentic experience where authors can link learning with their own daily life activities and reflections. The contribution of this manuscript is fourfold: first, the main barriers for ubiquitous and mobile authoring of educational resources are identified; second, recent research on mobile authoring tools is reviewed, and 10 key shortcomings of current approaches are identified; third, the design of a mobile environment to author educational resources (MAT for ARLearn) is presented, and the results of an evaluation of usability and hedonic quality are presented; fourth, conclusions and a research agenda for mobile authoring are discussed.

Keywords authentic learning · context · mobile authoring · universal access

ISSN1615-5297
RefereedYes
Rightsby-sa/4.0
DOI10.1007/s10209-014-0391-y
URLhttp://dspace.ou.nl/handle/1820/5674
Other informationUniv Access Inf Soc
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