The Role of Content Adaptation in Ubiquitous Learning

Abstract

With advent of mobile technology and its huge popularity, mobile devices become truly ubiquitous and they can serve as ideal tools for learning. Though there may not be much difficulty in accessing the learning content using desktop PCs and laptops, accessing the content using mobile devices makes a difficult task because of the varying device capabilities and form factors. Ubiquitous learning systems should consider various factors like support for heterogeneous devices with different screen sizes & resolution, storage, processing power, format handling capabilities and network connectivity. This paper describes various challenges in implementing ubiquitous learning system and need for content adaptation to meet different user requirements and device constraints. It includes different adaptation techniques and implementation details of prototype application being developed. Also, experimental results are discussed for evaluating functionality of the developed system.