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Educational Affordances of Ubiquitous Learning

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Edutainment Technologies. Educational Games and Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Applications (Edutainment 2011)

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This study aims to explore educational affordances on a natural science course with a ubiquitous learning environment. To address this research goal, this study employed a learning environment termed the Environment of Ubiquitous Learning with Educational Resources (EULER) and conducted a natural science course. The participants included elementary school teachers and elementary school students. Detailed studies of how the students use EULER and how this course affects their learning have enabled us to identify specific educational affordances. This study describes eleven educational affordances that have implications for current and future developments in pedagogy.

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  1. Dept. of Multimedia and Game Science, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan County, Taiwan

    Tsung-Yu Liu

  2. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

    Tan-Hsu Tan, Min-Sheng Lin & Yu-Ling Chu

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  1. School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Maiga Chang

  2. Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan

    Wu-Yuin Hwang

  3. Graduate Institute of Information & Computer Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Ming-Puu Chen

  4. University of Education, Weingarten, Germany

    Wolfgang Müller

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Liu, TY., Tan, TH., Lin, MS., Chu, YL. (2011). Educational Affordances of Ubiquitous Learning. In: Chang, M., Hwang, WY., Chen, MP., Müller, W. (eds) Edutainment Technologies. Educational Games and Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Applications. Edutainment 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6872. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23456-9_16

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