Grant: Industrial Research Chairs

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