2022 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Research and Development of a Novel Learning Support Environment on Synchronized Multiple Devices with Affordance
| Project/Area Number |
20K19939
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| Research Institution | Akita University |
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Principal Investigator |
Lu Min 秋田大学, 理工学研究科, 助教 (60750007)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | learning support / mobile learning / multiple devices / learning dashboard / learning analytics / human-centered design / collaborative learning |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Although the shift of COVID-19 situations has changed the research environment and direction of proceeding with the proposed multi-device learning environment (MDLE), this project has achieved contributions in different aspects.
Initially, the MDLE was expected to support classroom study for a single student. It provides auxiliary functions to traditional e-learning systems with additional interfaces. A learning dashboard visualizing the analytics from the operation logs of the students' online learning activities was proposed, and a prototype visualizing the reading paths on digital textbooks was developed. An interactive user interface for course recommendations in university environments was developed based on course choice motivations, visualizing courses' categories, types, and relations on an interactive web UI. The results were presented at international and domestic conferences, and three journal papers were published.
MDLE is then extended to indoor & outdoor collaborative learning settings, in which the needs of mobile devices and multi-device synchronization are more explicit than classroom learning. Indoor AR navigation for a museum and illustrative map storytelling tools are developed on mobile devices for educational purposes. Three papers were published in this research aspect.
Finally, this research explored the possibility of breaking through the conventional learning settings with contemporary devices and inspired the follow-up research focusing on applying MDLE in collaborative regional education, which is accepted as a Kiban-C project.
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