Grant: Discovery Grants Program - Individual

There has been extremely rapid growth of wireless technology in recent years, along with increasing availability of high bandwidth network infrastructures (especially the SuperNet in Alberta). Advances in mobile technologies and the popularity of handheld devices have opened up new accessibility opportunities for citizens. The true potential of e-learning as ""anytime, anywhere"" has finally begun to be realized, particularly for those in remote communities. The primary goal of this research program is to advance research on the innovative paradigms, architectures and implementations of wireless applications and systems for individualised and adaptive learning. With the use of personalized learning on mobile devices, the long terms goal is to facilitate education, at least as high a quality as available in a classroom environment, and even surpass that by incorporating situation-specific content and problem scenarios from learners' surrounding environments. Within this long-term research program, current proposal aims to extend our understanding of mobile learning to provide rich learning experiences in higher education by exploiting the benefits of location, device and student modelling, and combining them with mobile technology to achieve personalized and situation-specific learning through the analysis of students' surroundings, situation-specific problem-solving by students through multiple forms of input (such as text typed by keypad or in digital ink, images taken by mobile devices' camera, audio recorded on mobile device and so on), for rich learning experiences.