Mobile lessons: lessons based on geo-referenced information

We coined the term "mobile lessons" for lessons held outside of "artificial" environments as classrooms. During these lessons, all actors are mobile and must move to do the required tasks. Themes tackled in such lessons may be as varied as geography, history, ecology, dialects in linguisticsldots Mobile lessons are not a new teaching strategy, but new mobile devices may render it more efficient and more attractive. The aim is to place students in conditions germane to the ones in which experts work. We implemented in Java a software for creating and using mobile lessons and for monitoring students on the field. Contents and questions are in XML. Using this software, teachers of a high school in Sardinia (Italy) developed and experimented a mobile lesson on the archaeological site of Nora. Under the light of this experiment, a wireless, distributed and more sophisticated version of the software is under development.

@InProceedings{GMSP02a,
  author       = {Giroux, S. and Moulin, C. and Sanna, R. and Pintus, A.},
  title        = {Mobile lessons: lessons based on geo-referenced information},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings Of The E-Learn 2002 Conference, World Conference On E-Learning In Corporate, Government, Healtcare \& Higher Education - Montreal, Canada},
  pages        = {331--338},
  month        = {october},
  year         = {2002},
  editor       = {Margaret Driscoll and Thomas C. Reeves},
  publisher    = {AACE},
  organization = {Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)},
  note         = {idxproject: NDA},
  url          = {https://publications.crs4.it/pubdocs/2002/GMSP02a},
}