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Assessing the Usage of Ubiquitous Learning

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Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education (TECH-EDU 2018)

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High success is the main objective of any education system. Thus, in any educational organization, the education offered must be efficient and effective. It is evident that some factors are critical for such achievements. Ubiquitous learning systems and interactive video courses incorporate features which can be measured using learning analytics. In this paper, we adopt nine dimensions of u-learning. According to the learners’ interactions, we suggest indexes and metrics for the assessment of ubiquitous and interactive video courses. These indexes and metrics are associated with the presented u-learning dimensions. The proposed metrics are calculated for a case study in a higher education institute, and the results are explained and associated with the introduced u-learning dimensions.

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  1. Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Agios Loukas, 65404, Kavala, Greece

    Ioannis Kazanidis & Stavros Valsamidis

  2. University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Sotirios Kontogiannis

  3. TEI of Western Macedonia, Grevena, Greece

    Elias Gounopoulos

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  1. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Meni Tsitouridou

  2. Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    José A. Diniz

  3. University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Tassos A. Mikropoulos

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Kazanidis, I., Valsamidis, S., Kontogiannis, S., Gounopoulos, E. (2019). Assessing the Usage of Ubiquitous Learning. In: Tsitouridou, M., A. Diniz, J., Mikropoulos, T. (eds) Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education. TECH-EDU 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 993. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20954-4_45

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