A Conceptual Model for Open U-Learning Platform (original) (raw)

Looking into the definition and characteristics of u-learning

2009

This paper describes a new learning paradigm,known as ubiquitous learning or u-learning, which is supported by the ubiquitous computing technologies.In addition, the paper also aims at providing specific information related to u-learning for researchers who are interested in venturing the new area of ubiquitous computing.The u-learning definition and characteristics are also compared and discussed. As a result, a conclusive definition of u-learning together with its characterization is proposed. Finally, some of the u-learning applications are explained to further enhance the understanding of u-learning concept.

New Archetype Reposition of Education from E-learning to U-Learning

NSOU-OPEN JOURNAL, 2022

Learning is not now confined into four walls called school. With the advent towards 'Knowledge Society' and necessity of education for lifelong learning, learning has to be now needed in everywhere and in availability for 24*7. To satisfy the needs and requirement, schools adapt online learning resources to reach million and million people to diminish the cost of infrastructure, maintenance cost, regular cost etc. along with to satisfy the necessity of the society in where needs from education differs from time to time. With rapid growth of population and entrance in educational periphery for all ages don't accumulate all population within the boundary. Introducing of e-learning justifies the need irrespective of geographical boundaries. Recent furtherance in wireless technology has introduced a new drift in the field of education that is U-Learning (Ubiquitous Learning) which is more advanced in its approach: it can percept the present situation of the learners and do accordingly. Present paper will focus on the paradigm shift from traditional teaching learning scenario to present u-learning and tries to locate its beneficial perspective and loops holes so that policy makers can able to address those adversities and can able to prescribe the desired one framework which leads to promote towards quality education and justify the demands of the society. Recent paper is based on qualitative approach and data as well as information are gathered from different secondary sources to justify the issue.

MODERNIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION THROUGH E-LEARNING PROGRAMME

Planting Future , 2015

Advance technologies changing an entire system of teaching and learning process. The online and open education world is making learning easier and faster. The involvement of digital technology in the last two decades has changed the world dramatically, and will continue to do so. Technology is driving major changes in everyone's professional and personal life style across the world, impacting every facet of society, and is now an integral part of faster communication, work, learn and access knowledge and information. New and emerging technologies are already started transforming a higher education system. "E-education" develops the student centric learning system which enables the students to learn faster and to find out easier ways of problem solving. This e-educational system is now adopting by the several universities all across the world which has become a significant factor in the higher education system as an attractive center for the young people. Digital technologies in themselves do not necessarily constitute an enhancement of the quality of learning and teaching, and it goes without saying that quality of content must remain paramount, but they are an enabler for such enhancement and can underpin efforts towards more student-centred teaching. Introduction Advance technologies changing an entire system of teaching and learning process. The online and open education world is making learning easier and faster. E-learning is projected to enhance teaching and learning process but this transformation should be shaped by educators and policy-makers, rather than something that simply happens to them. And the benefits of these developments should be available to all. In higher education system, new technologies enable universities to meet a broader range of learner's needs, adapting traditional teaching methods and offering a mix of face to face and online learning possibilities that allow individuals to learn anywhere, anytime. They also create many opportunities to engage learners in new kind of collaboration and provide them available resources more effectively. It is imperative that higher education system takes the lead in this arena. But in our country many universities are not yet ready for this change and governments have been slow to take the lead. The involvement of digital technology in the last two decades has changed the world dramatically, and will continue to do so. Technology is driving major changes in everyone's professional and personal life style across the world, impacting every facet of society, and is now an integral part of faster communication, work, learn and access knowledge and information. New and emerging technologies are already started transforming a higher education system. There is every reason to harness the potential of these developments in the service of high quality higher education. But to do that effectively we need to both widen and deepen our understanding of how these new technologies and pedagogical tools can be an integral part of the way higher education is delivered, and identify what measures can be taken to further stimulate, facilitate and advance it. With the development of the Internet, Internet-based computerised learning, known as e-learning, has attracted the attention of educators. E-learning is defined as "the use of new multimedia technologies and the Internet to improve the quality of learning by facilitating access to resources and services, as well as remote exchange and collaboration" (EC, 2001) Essentially, e-learning is an alternative way to teach and learn. It is a recent phenomenon that has not yet incorporated the pedagogical principles of teaching (Bixler and Spotts, 2000). During learning, learners acquire levels of knowledge, which Bloom taxonomy defined in educational objectives (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation), which is still widely accepted today (Bloom, 1956). These objectives describe several knowledge levels, intellectual capabilities, and skills that a learner can achieve through learning and which, briefly, are: 1. Syntactic level-where the learner acquires the knowledge and understands its fundaments and the underlying reasoning processes. 2. Semantic level-learners are able to successfully tackle analysis and synthesis processes in new or complex situations. They have the ability to decide what method, knowledge, and instruments to use in each case. This knowledge is demonstrated by describing knowledge maps, decision tables, etc, of real problems. 3. Pragmatic level-learners are able to apply the knowledge acquired to solve particular problems and to evaluate the methods, processes, and tools to be used, which they can judge both qualitatively and quantitatively.

Open Educational Environment as a Condition for the Development of Modern Online Learning

2021

Scientists from all over the world have been dealing with the problems of developing an open educational environment for a long time. The current critical situation due to the mass transformation to distance learning has certainly influenced the process of creating or updating universities’ open educational environments. However, the education system tends to develop online learning, increase online bachelor's and master's degree programs, training programs, etc. Consequently, it becomes obvious that modern online learning should be implemented under specific conditions, thereby creating a unique open online educational environment. It is very important to solve the problem of organizing qualitative online learning when developing such an environment. This is facilitated by the use of the latest digital and pedagogical technologies, for example, business simulators. One of the tools for assessing the quality of online education is educational data analytics. This also helps ...

E-Learning in Higher Education : Issues, Challenges, Benefits, Future

2007

This article attempts to present the recent trends in the pedagogy, that the managements of higher education have begun to adapt. Of late, more and more Institutions have started making their courseware and resources available online. The next step in this direction for the institutions would be to provide evaluation structure to all its students, and provide this facility early in their educational period. This article will look into Higher Education Institutions, with emphasis on Indian Institutions, especially at the Under Graduate and Post Graduate levels adopting the use of e-learning in their institutions. INTRODUCTION In April 2001, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) posted the content of some 2,000 classes on the Web, it hoped the program-called OpenCourseWare-would spur a worldwide movement among educators to share knowledge and improve teaching methods. No institution of higher learning had ever proposed anything as revolutionary, or challenging. MIT made everything, from video lectures and class notes to tests and course outlines, available to anybody with Internet Access. VTU (Visvesvaraya Technological University), formally launched its e-learning website in India on 8th January 2005. It had already dry run its sessions in 2004 before this. In the initiative, VTU Centre made video-based lecture and e-learning courseware of 120 sessions available free on the website. The courseware included materials such as lecture notes, course outlines, reading lists and a s s i g n m e n t s / q u i z z e s i n c l u d i n g i n d u s t r y-r e l a t e d 1 courseware. On the other hand, as early as 1998, NIIT National Institute for Information Technology (India) adopted the NetVarsity model, where it provided the student Learning Units to understand the concepts of the lessons, in their curricula. But this initiative was based on a revenue model and not 2 offered for free. At a time, when most enterprises are racing to profit from the Internet and the "knowledge-economy "; and universities are advertising every possible variant of (distance) learning, the institutions of technology and science education make it away free? This article aims not to evaluate the pros and cons of free e-learning initiatives, but it takes the reader through the Issues, Challenges, Benefits and the Future of e-learning. The first section of this article, looks into e-learning as the new alternative for the higher education sector and also as a 'teacher-less' delivery mode. The education front, with its global markets, is fast changing its scenario to provide training and higher education to the executive-student community in particular. The second section highlights the e-learning initiatives taken in India, in those areas where infrastructure is poor to almost nil. In certain areas despite the opportunities, champions are needed to take the cause further to attain fruitful conclusions. It also highlights how Institutions of

Development of E-learning in higher education and future directions

Teachers and students in higher education are coming to realize that to become competent practitioners there is need to take advantage of up-to-date digital technologies and learning practices. Learning process requires measurement and evaluation of students behaviour. In the case of e-learning, evidence is sought for improvements resulting from the use of online tools and processes desired to achieve a given set of learning outcomes. In this 21st century, knowledge is fast becoming a powerful engine in life. The visions, innovations, and inventions are the building blocks of developing knowledgeable and sustainable society. E-learning has facilitated the use of a plethora of internet and web-based applications as the method of communication with a distributed audience. Therefore, institutions of higher learning are constantly venturing into new and innovative methods and are radically changing the educational practice making it competitive. This paper examines how emerging technologies and e-learning are being used in education to create a major shift in the educational service paradigm that promises major advantages over the traditional distance learning and face-to-face systems. The authors present developments in distance education and e-learning whilst clarifying the similarities and differences between them. We identify factors affecting development of e-learning systems and examine the implementation of some systems in pervasive distributed computing environments. For everyone everywhere, the present developments in e-learning spells more access for learners, cautionary expansion for universities, and accelerated learning and influences for the future. The future directions is such that the higher educational system of the future and especially in Europe must aim to meet human development needs with elearning playing some major parts through promotion of access and widening participation in knowledge and skills acquisition. In order to support learning in evolving dynamic environments, several factors must be taken into consideration. These range from policies, strategies, the current education environments and business needs as well as the specific discipline being studied. Since the advent of e-learning and its eventual implementation in higher education, the world of learning for both the advanced nations and emerging economies have witnessed an upsurge in the number and types of students who are now engaged in pursuit of studies at institutions of higher learning. This paper reports on issues relating to expectations of the university of the future and the future of universities.

The Ecosystem Framework for U-Learning Implementation Through Courseware Development and Management

2017

One of the serious problems faced by mostly developing country is a relatively low higher education gross enrolment rate. Several breakthrough programs have been initiated by education practitioners to solve this issue, including the adoption of open education concept through the implementation of e-learning. The issue of e-learning occurred as such approach requires and consumes learning resources that are difficult to acquired and developed. Nowadays, the way of designing online courses have been left behind, replaced by a new emerging concept of ubiquitous learning (u-learning). This emerging 21st century conception lies upon the principle that learning can be done from anywhere, anytime and anyhow through the utilisation of information and communication technology. The application of ulearning in formal education can be held effectively and efficiently should it is done in a systemic and holistic way. This article proposes a strategic ecosystem framework for effective u-learning...

E -learning as a tool for higher education and its challenges

This study aims to provide a discussion of the e-learning and its challenges for the student as well as for the teachers. As the years go by, ways of learning are modified and adapted to suit the trends and the requirements of the era. Due to the rapid growth of Internet technology e-learning has become an increasingly popular approach to learning in higher education institutions. Internet is a perfect tool of learning that offers flexibility and feasibility to learners at the same time offering endless opportunities for innovative teaching. Technological development has changed people's lives on different dimensions including teaching and learning. The internet is one of the channels that open the door for students around the world to access education that too on low costs. Elearning is adopted by organizations to offer training for their employees. It requires a different approach to pedagogy especially in areas of individual or group interaction and online assessment. However these skills are not unknown to all, as borders become less meaningful, global competition strengthens. International expansion has led to larger and more complex corporations. Due to the introduction of different new techniques online learning has become easier and interesting. The present paper will explore the challenges which are faced in the higher education. Development of new technologies and software tools are providing real learning experience, which is helping in developing a true learning society based on technology. Academics are only good as much as they can adapt to the new technology, which is a challenge for most academics. The current challenge for academics in an e-learning is to understand the Learning styles, motivation, Time-management etc. of different students for better learning outcomes.

Very Large Scale E-Learning Practices in the Open Education System at Anadolu University

In Turkey, the open education opportunities for higher education are provided by Anadolu University. The basic instructional materials were books, TV programs and face-to-face tutorials when the Open Education System was first established in 1982. In the 2000s, as the number of students began approaching one million, and with the advancement in educational technology, Open Education Faculty began to provide e-learning services to enhance students' learning process. Some of these e-learning services offered are internet-based practice exams, exercises, course books and television programs, on-line tutorials, multimedia CD ROMs. Hundred thousands of Open Education Faculty students make use of these e-learning services regularly. This study presents the developments and implementation of e-learning services provided by the open education system at Anadolu University.