Social knowledge building in a mobile learning environment

  • Authors:
  • Manuel Gentile;Davide Taibi;Luciano Seta;Marco Arrigo;Giovanni Fulantelli;Onofrio Di Giuseppe;Gaspare Novara

  • Affiliations:
  • Italian National Research Council, Institute for Educational Technologies, Palermo, Italy;Italian National Research Council, Institute for Educational Technologies, Palermo, Italy;Italian National Research Council, Institute for Educational Technologies, Palermo, Italy;Italian National Research Council, Institute for Educational Technologies, Palermo, Italy;Italian National Research Council, Institute for Educational Technologies, Palermo, Italy;Italian National Research Council, Institute for Educational Technologies, Palermo, Italy;Italian National Research Council, Institute for Educational Technologies, Palermo, Italy

  • Venue:
  • OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

According to the social constructivism paradigm, knowledge is not transferred from teachers to students, but is the result of collaborative activities; when these activities take place in a mobile environment, it is extremely important to consider how the temporal and spatial factors can influence the collaborative process. In this work we define a model for mobile Knowledge Building Process (mKBP); starting from this model, we propose to analyse the evolution of a mobile collaborative learning experience through its interactions with the social, the information and the geographic spaces. Finally, we present the methodologies and the tools used to investigate the data gathered during a specific mobile learning experience carried out at the Institute for Educational Technologies of the Italian National Research Council, in the framework of the Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning (MoULe) project.