Recommendations of Strategies for Significant Learning in U-Learning Environments

Abstract

The resources of mobile and ubiquitous technologies allow learners a new possibility of learning in specific contexts, contextualized and extendable to the real environment. While performing the activities in the field, one perceives differences of behaviors and of knowledge among the apprentices. At this point, ubiquitous computing tools can extend the benefits to learning by considering the context in which the learner is. However, the design of Ubiquitous Learning Environments (U-Learning), which meets all these innovative features of continuous mobility, is not a simple task due to the peculiar characteristics of the supporting devices: heterogeneity, limited battery, scarce computational resources, among others. This work presents a set of recommendations for strategies for meaningful learning in a U-learning environment, arising from needs identified through a ubiquitous learning platform, through an experiment carried out at a Federal Institution in the Northeast of Brazil culminating in the proposal of recommendations of improvements in learning activities that allow greater assistance to the learner through the environment and to the teacher, favoring the characteristics for meaningful ubiquitous learning.