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Paradigm Shifts in E-Learning: From Web-Based Learning to Context-Aware Ubiquitous Learning

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Reshaping Learning

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Although digital learning, such as web-based learning and computer-assisted learning, has been recognized as being an effective learning channel that provides rich and diverse content, educators have emphasized the importance and necessity of conducting “authentic activities” in which students can work with problems from the real world. Recent progress in computer, wireless communication and sensing technologies has provided opportunities to conduct authentic learning activities in the real world with supports from digital systems. Such a new development of technology-enhanced learning has been called context-aware ubiquitous learning by researchers, and shifts the learning paradigm from virtual to authentic contexts. In such an innovative learning environment, the learning system is able to sense the real-world situation of the learners, interact with them and provide them with adaptive supports accordingly. In this chapter, we shall address how the e-learning has been affected by these emerging technologies via reviewing several studies and applications; moreover, the strategies of applying the new approach as well as the potential research issues are discussed.

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  1. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Ronghuai Huang

  2. Faculty of Science and Technology, Athabasca University, Athabasca, AB, Canada

    Kinshuk

  3. College of Information, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA

    J. Michael Spector

Gwo-Jen Hwang, PhD

Gwo-Jen Hwang, PhD

Chair Professor, Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

43, Sec.4, Keelung Rd., Taipei, 106, Taiwan

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Gwo-Jen Hwang is a Chair Professor at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. His research interests include mobile and ubiquitous learning, adaptive learning, and knowledge engineering. Dr. Hwang has published more than 400 academic papers. Owing to the good reputation in academic research and innovative inventions of e-learning, in 2007 and 2011, he received the annual Most Outstanding Researcher Award from the National Science Council in Taiwan.

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Hwang, GJ. (2013). Paradigm Shifts in E-Learning: From Web-Based Learning to Context-Aware Ubiquitous Learning. In: Huang, R., Kinshuk, Spector, J.M. (eds) Reshaping Learning. New Frontiers of Educational Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32301-0_11

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