Explore! Possibilities and challenges of mobile learning

Maria F. Costabile; Antonella De Angeli; Rosa Lanzilotti; Carmelo Ardito; Paolo Buono; Thomas Pederson

doi:10.1145/1357054.1357080

Explore! Possibilities and challenges of mobile learning

Maria F. Costabile, Antonella De Angeli, Rosa Lanzilotti, Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Thomas Pederson

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This paper reports the experimental studies we have performed to evaluate Explore!, an m-learning system that supports middle school students during a visit to an archaeological park. It exploits a learning technique called excursion-game, whose aim is to help students to acquire historical notions while playing and to make archaeological visits more effective and exciting. In order to understand the potentials and limitations of Explore!, our studies compare the experience of playing the excursion-game with and without technological support. The design and evaluation of Explore! have provided knowledge on the advantages and pitfalls of m-learning that may be instrumental in informing the current debate on e-learning. Copyright 2008 ACM.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings\|Conf Hum Fact Comput Syst Proc
Pages	145-154
Number of pages	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357080
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	26th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2008 - Florence Duration: 1 Jul 2008 → …

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Conference	26th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2008
City	Florence
Period	1/07/08 → …

Keywords

Children
Cooperative inquiry
Digital augmentation
Edutainment
Mobile learning

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Costabile, MF, De Angeli, A, Lanzilotti, R, Ardito, C, Buono, P & Pederson, T 2008, Explore! Possibilities and challenges of mobile learning. in Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings|Conf Hum Fact Comput Syst Proc. pp. 145-154, 26th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2008, Florence, 1/07/08. https://doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357080

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