Unlocking Smartphone Data for Educational Use in Teaching and Learning Environment

marisol — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:16:12 +0000

Authors: Fuming Shih and Weihua Li
Abstract. We address the challenges of applying smartphone data to improve the
experiences of teaching and learning in the university environment. Specifically, we cre-
ated a framework to collect, monitor and analyze student behavioral data and increase
social interactions for educational uses. The framework has three essential components.
The first component is App Inventor, a web-based platform with drag-and-drop tools
for novices to create mobile apps that collect personal and environmental data. The sec-
ond component is Reactive Data Store, an intuitive mechanism that connects multiple
data sources and automates the tasks for analyzing personal data. The third compo-
nent is a push notification mechanism that delivers personalized or group messages as
the results of the real-time analysis and triggers more actions accordingly. Together,
these components will transform people's campus experiences by unleashing the values
of smartphone data. Lastly, we introduced the framework to a group of teachers in
higher education with a focus group discussion to identify the plausible use cases in
terms of performance assessments, pedagogy design and collaborative learning.
In Book Title: Smart University Workshop in Eighth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, November 2013

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smartUniv.pdf

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Undergraduate
Master's and Above

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Intermediate

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Computer Science

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Chinese App Inventor Site

shay — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:10:59 +0000

A group of App Inventor fans in China came together and created the site, www.appinventor.com.cn, in 2010. The founders strongly believe App Inventor has unlimited possibilities and bright future. They want to share App Inventor with the people in China by using this website as a local hub. The site has many App Inventor resources, especially the online video tutorials which have three seasons and more than 70 videos. There is also a technical discussion forum and the Tencent QQ group for App Inventor users at all levels. Currently, they have more than 400 active members in the group, many of whom are educators from high schools and universities. Many members have gone beyond their active involvement in the group and have started App Inventor classes in their own schools.

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http://www.appinventor.com.cn

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6-8
9-12
Undergraduate
Master's and Above

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Basic

Subject:

Computer Science
Entrepreneurship

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Tutorial
Other

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