Grant: Industrial Research Chairs

Recent advances in the mobile and sensor technologies have started to give rise to research and development that takes advantage of learner's location, environment, proximity and situation to contextualize the learning process. Adaptivity and personalization in these ubiquitous scenarios have taken on a new meaning by bringing authenticity, through seamless integration of physical objects available in the learner's vicinity with virtual information in real-time. Such environments not only break barriers to education by widening access to those who cannot attend a physical classroom but also increase the richness of instruction by integrating multiple sources of instruction, contextualization and real-time location-aware learning, hence overcoming the limitations of classroom learning. Ubiquitous learning is an emerging area and a number of research directions are evolving as research continues. This Chair program focuses on research for creating an infrastructure that enables learners, teachers and trainers to engage in effective learning and instruction processes where learners and trainees undertake instructional activities in authentic on-site situations outside of classroom. The proposed research program will design, develop and implement ubiquitous learning analytics methods and techniques to investigate and analyze learning/training progress in authentic ubiquitous learning environments and enable instructional interventions as and when difficulties in the learning/training process are identified.